Election 97

Blyth Valley

Current MP Ronnie Campbell
Conservative 97 5,666
Labour 97 27,276
LibDem 97 9,540
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 0
Elected party
Blyth Valley

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Blyth Valley
Conservative 92 7,691
Labour 92 24,542
LibDem 92 16,498
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 470
Elected party Labour

The Blyth seat embraces not only traditional mining and dockyard areas around Blyth itself, but also the rapidly growing Newcastle satellite of Cramlington. The seat has a curious history, Blyth Valley having been held briefly in 1974 by Labour renegade, Eddie Milne, as 'Independent Labour'. Labour won the seat back but subsequent centrist challenges, first from the Social Democrats and more recently the Liberal Democrats, have seen the Conservative vote squeezed into third place. This should still be safe Labour territory, but the third-party intervention does make for curious interest.


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