Constituency Profile
Houghton and Sunderland South is a medium density inland area partly on the south banks of the River Wear mostly populated by people of working age that has a minority of the population who live in rural villages. The majority of the population historically relied on coal mining, steelworks and shipbuilding from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries on Wearside with Tyne and Wear at the forefront of some of the earliest Labour Party activity and several of its earliest Members of Parliament. During the 2010 Parliament, Houghton and Sunderland South is the 82th safest Labour seat in the country. The largest opposition was in 2010 from the Conservative Party.
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