Election 97

Tynemouth

Current MP Neville Trotter (Retiring)
Conservative 97 17,045
Labour 97 28,318
LibDem 97 4,509
Nationalist 97 0
Other 97 462
Elected party
Tynemouth

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Tynemouth
Conservative 92 27,056
Labour 92 23,527
LibDem 92 4,507
Nationalist 92 0
Other 92 543
Elected party Conservative

The only Conservative constituency in Tyne and Wear is Tynemouth, in North Tyneside. It has only ever been won by Labour in their great year of 1945. But it will be surprising if they do not take it in 1997, after a gap of over 50 years.

In 1992, they pared Neville Trotter's Tory majority to just 597. The seat includes heavy industry on the north bank of the Tyne in places like North Shields, as well as the Conservative coastland around Cullercoats and Whitley Bay. In the boundary changes some of the working-class Labour area is removed, specifically the Riverside ward, which includes part of the notoriously troubled Meadow Well estate. Nevertheless, the Tories will have to withstand a swing to Labour of only just over 3 per cent if they wish to hold on to their last seat in the urban North East of England.


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