| Tyneside | |
|---|---|
| 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.
- ^ Great Britain, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. The public general acts. unknown library. Proprietors of the Law Journal Reports, 1884. p. 167.
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