Politics
See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and WearTyne and Wear is divided into 13 Parliamentary constituencies. Historically, the area has been a Labour stronghold, South Shields is the only Parliamentary constituency that has never returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832.
| General Election 2010 : Tyne and Wear | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Liberal Democrats | Conservative | BNP | UKIP | Others | Green | National Front | Trade Union & Socialist | Christian Party | Turnout |
| 239,211 +7,338 |
106,380 +9,129 |
105,117 +30,595 |
23,740 +20,071 |
8,731 +4,876 |
3,766 +59 |
3,186 +1,932 |
599 –398 |
266 N/A |
131 N/A |
491,304 +73,971 |
| Overall Number of seats as of 2010 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Liberal Democrats | Conservative | BNP | UKIP | Others | Green | National Front | Trade Union & Socialist | Christian Party |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
At the level of local government, three of the region's five unitary authorities were controlled by Labour in 2005, the exceptions being Newcastle City Council and North Tyneside Council. Since an upset result in the local elections of 2004, the former has been controlled by the Liberal Democrats. No one party has overall control of North Tyneside Council: while the Conservatives hold the greatest number of seats, 28, they lack an overall majority, there are 32 other councillors. North Tyneside is the only authority in the area with a directly elected Mayor. Currently a Conservative member.
Read more about this topic: History Of Tyne And Wear
Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)