Hexham County constituency
Hexham shown within Northumberland, and Northumberland shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Peter Atkinson
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Northumberland
EP constituency:	North East England

Hexham is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. A safe Conservative seat, it is the only seat in North East England to return a Tory MP (which it has done since 1924) at the last election.

Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, Speaker of the Commons during the latter years of World War II, represented the seat for two separate tenures.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 2000s 3.2 Elections in the 1990s 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency is named after the town of Hexham in Northumberland. It includes the former Tynedale district and part of the former Castle Morpeth district. A mostly rural seat which houses much of Newcastle's commuting middle-class, Hexham has been the only Conservative seat in the North East since 1997, and the only one in Northumberland since 1973.

(Tynedale and Castle Morpeth district councils were abolished in April 2009 in favour of a unitary Northumberland County Council).

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Northumberland, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the existing boundaries of the Hexham constituency. The electoral wards used in its formation are:

• The entire former district of Tynedale
• The former Castle Morpeth wards of Heddon-on-the-Wall, Ponteland East, Ponteland North, Ponteland South, Ponteland West, Stamfordham and Stannington

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1885		Constituency created
	1885	Miles MacInnes	Liberal
	1892	Nathaniel George Clayton	Conservative
	1893	Miles MacInnes	Liberal
	1895	Wentworth Beaumont, later Viscount Allendale	Liberal
	1907	Richard Durning Holt	Liberal
	1918	Douglas Clifton Brown	Coalition Conservative
	1923	Victor Harold Finney	Liberal
	1924	Douglas Clifton Brown	Conservative
	1943		Speaker
	1951	Rupert Speir	Conservative
	1966	Geoffrey Rippon	Conservative
	1987	Alan Amos	Conservative
	1992	Peter Atkinson	Conservative

[edit] Election results

In 2008, Peter Atkinson announced his intention to stand down at the next election.^[1]

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Duffield
	Independent	Steven Ford
	Conservative	Guy Opperman
	Labour	Antoine Tinnion

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Hexham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Atkinson	17,605	42.4	-2.2
	Labour	Kevin Graham	12,585	30.3	-8.3
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Duffield	10,673	25.7	+10.7
	English Democrats	Ian Riddell	521	1.3	+1.3
	Imperial	Thomas Davison	129	0.3	+0.3
Majority			5,020	12.1
Turnout			41,513	68.8	-2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.0

General Election 2001: Hexham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Atkinson	18,917	44.6	+5.8
	Labour	Paul Brannen	16,388	38.6	+0.4
	Liberal Democrat	Philip Latham	6,380	15.0	-2.4
	UKIP	Alan Patterson	728	1.7	-0.8
Majority			2,529	6.0
Turnout			42,413	70.9	-6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Hexham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Atkinson	17,701	38.8
	Labour	Ian McMinn	17,479	38.2
	Liberal Democrat	Philip Carr	7,959	17.4
	Referendum Party	Robert Waddell	1,362	3.0
	UKIP	David Lott	1,170	2.6
Majority			222	0.5
Turnout			45,671	77.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

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Preceded by Daventry	Constituency represented by the Speaker 1943 – 1951	Succeeded by Cirencester and Tewkesbury

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