2024 United Kingdom general election in North East England

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2024 United Kingdom general election in North East England
← 2019 4 July 2024
All 27 North East seats in the House of Commons
 
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Leader Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer
Party Conservative Labour
Leader since 24 October 2022 4 April 2020
Last election 10 seats, 38.3% 19 seats, 42.6%
 
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Leader Richard Tice Ed Davey
Party Reform UK Liberal Democrats
Leader since 6 March 2021 27 August 2020[note 1]
Last election 0 seats, 7.9% 0 seats, 6.9%

The 2024 United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 4 July 2024. 27 seats will be up for election in North East England.

Electoral system[edit]

The election will be fought under the boundaries created by the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.[2]

Constituencies[edit]

Main article: Parliamentary constituencies in North East England

North East England will elect 27 MPs, which is 2 less than the 29 elected in 2019 general election.[3]

Candidates[edit]

Main article: Candidates in the 2024 United Kingdom general election

Candidates in bold were MPs at dissolution and represented a constituency in that parliamentary term which is succeeded at least partially by the constituency they're standing for election in at this election, in some cases not for the party they were aligned with when they were originally elected, and also includes those elected at by-elections in the preceding parliament. Italics denotes incumbent MPs not contesting the election.

Constituency (2024–) Constituency (2010–24) Succ. %

[note 2]

Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats Reform UK Green Party Others Incumbent
North Northumberland Berwick-upon-Tweed 95% Anne-Marie Trevelyan[4] David Smith[citation needed] Natalie Younes[5] Katherine Hales[6] Jan Rosen[7] Conservative Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Bishop Auckland 75% Jane MacBean[8] Sam Rushworth[9][10] Rhys Burriss[6] Sarah Hannan[11] Rachel Maughan (Transform) Conservative Dehenna Davison
Blaydon and Consett Blaydon 51% Angela Sterling[12] Liz Twist [citation needed] Vicky Anderson[5] David Ayre[6] Richard Simpson[11] Mark Logan[13] (Workers) Labour Liz Twist
North West Durham 49% Conservative Richard Holden
Blyth and Ashington Wansbeck 73% Maureen Levy[14] Mark Peart[6] Steve Leyland[15] Labour Ian Lavery
Blyth Valley 45% Conservative Ian Levy
Cramlington and Killingworth 55% Ian Levy[16] Emma Foody[17] Thom Campion[18] Calum MacGregor[6] Ian Jones[19] Mathew Wilkinson[20] (SDP)
North Tyneside 31% Labour Mary Glindon
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend 42% Mary Glindon[21] Mark Ridyard[22] Janice Richardson[6] Martin Evison[20] (SDP)

Muhammed Ghori[23] (Workers)

Newcastle upon Tyne East 69% Independent (elected as Labour) Nick Brown
Newcastle upon Tyne North 29% Catherine McKinnell[24] Aidan King[22] Michael Harrigan[6]
Newcastle upon Tyne North 43% Labour Catherine McKinnell
Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West 42% Chi Onwurah [citation needed] Ali Avaei[22] Yvonne Ridley[25][26] (Independent)
Newcastle upon Tyne Central 78% Labour Chi Onwurah
City of Durham 86% Luke Holmes[27] Mary Kelly Foy[28] Mark Wilkes[citation needed] Mark Belch[6] Jonathan Elmer[11] Sarah Welbourne[20] (SDP) Labour Mary Kelly Foy
Darlington 100% Peter Gibson[29] Lola McEvoy[29] Simon Thorley[29][5] Matthew Snedker[30] Conservative Peter Gibson
Easington 100% Joanne Howey[31] Lynn Murphy[6] Stephen Ashfield[11] Labour Grahame Morris
Gateshead Central and Whickham Gateshead 80% Ron Beadle[5] Rachel Cabral[32] Labour Ian Mearns
Hartlepool 100% Jill Mortimer [citation needed] Jonathan Brash[33] Jeremy Spyby-Steanson[34] Thomas Dudley[35] (Workers)

Anne Marie Waters[36] (UKIP)

Conservative Jill Mortimer[note 3]
Hexham 100% Guy Opperman[37] Joe Morris[38] Nick Cott[5] Nick Morphet[39] William Clouston[20] (SDP) Conservative Guy Opperman
Houghton and Sunderland South 100% Bridget Phillipson[40] Paul Edgeworth[41] Sam Woods-Brass[6] Labour Bridget Phillipson
Jarrow and Gateshead East Jarrow 89% Kate Osborne[42] James Rickelton[5] Nic Cook[43] Mark Conway (Alliance for Democracy and Freedom)[44] Labour Kate Osborne
Middlesbrough and Thornaby East Middlesbrough 94% Kiran Fothergill[45] Andy McDonald[citation needed] Mohammed Waqas[citation needed] Craig Jowers[6] Labour Andy McDonald
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland 91% Simon Clarke[46] Luke Myer[47] Jemma Joy[48] Rod Liddle[20] (SDP) Conservative Simon Clarke
North Durham 100% Andrew Husband[6] Sunny Moon-Schott[11] Tom Chittenden[20] (SDP) Labour Kevan Jones
Redcar 100% Jacob Young[49] Anna Turley[50][note 4] Chris Jones[citation needed] John Davies[6] Conservative Jacob Young
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor Sedgefield 69% Paul Howell Alan Strickland[51] John Grant[6] Jack Hughes[11] Minhajul Suhon[52] (Workers)

Terence Brian Agar(Transform)

Conservative Paul Howell
South Shields 100% Emma Lewell-Buck[53] David Francis[54] Labour Emma Lewell-Buck
Stockton North 96% Niall Innes[55] Chris McDonald[56] John Gerard McDermottroe[6] Sam Bradford[57][58] Labour Alex Cunningham
Stockton West Stockton South 77% Joe Dancey[59] Stephen Matthews[6] Monty Brack[60] (Independent)

Natalie Potter[61] (Workers)

Conservative Matt Vickers
Sunderland Central 100% Julie Elliott[62] Niall Hodson[22] Chris Eynon[6] Rachel Featherstone[63] Labour Julie Elliott
Tynemouth 87% Lewis Bartoli[citation needed] Alan Campbell Rosalyn Elliot[6] Chloe-Louise Fawcett Reilly[64] William Jarrett[65] (Workers) Labour Alan Campbell
Washington and Gateshead South Washington and Sunderland West 88% Sharon Hodgson[66] Ciaran Morrissey[67] Paul Donaghy[6] Labour Sharon Hodgson

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Davey served as Acting Leader from 13 December 2019 to 27 August 2020 alongside the Party Presidents Baroness Sal Brinton and Mark Pack, following Jo Swinson's election defeat in the 2019 general election. Davey was elected Leader in August 2020.[1]
  2. ^ New constituency contains this percentage of its predecessor constituency
  3. ^ Elected in by-election
  4. ^ Served as a Labour MP for this seat prior to the 2019 general election

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