Tyneside | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northumberland |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | South Northumberland |
Replaced by | Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Newcastle upon Tyne West, Wansbeck |
Tyneside was a parliamentary constituency in the Tyneside area of north-east England, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election as one of four single-member Divisions of the county of Northumberland,[1] and abolished for the 1918 general election.