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The constituency is located in an upland, western part of County Durham in the North East of England.. The constituency includes as its major settlements the towns of Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Shildon, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Crook, Tow Law, Stanhope and Wolsingham, with their surrounding villages, dales and fields.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine the unitary authority of County Durham with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of a cross-county ...
Constituency [nb 1] Electorate [2] Majority [3] [nb 2] Member of Parliament [3] Nearest opposition [3] County Constituency Map Bishop Auckland CC: 70,745 6,672 Sam Rushworth‡ Jane MacBean† County Durham: Blaydon and Consett CC: 70,487 11,153 Liz Twist‡ David Ayre# County Durham / Tyne and Wear: Blyth and Ashington CC: 76,263 9,173 Ian ...
The town is a part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, and is currently represented at Westminster by Sam Rushworth MP . Prior to Brexit, for the European Parliament its residents voted to elect MEP's for the North East England constituency.
Constituency Electorate Ceremonial county Local authority Bishop Auckland CC: 70,879 Durham: County Durham: Blaydon and Consett CC: 70,163 Durham / Tyne and Wear: County Durham / Gateshead: Blyth and Ashington CC: 75,452 Northumberland: Northumberland: City of Durham CC: 72,878 Durham County Durham Cramlington and Killingworth CC: 73,295 ...
Bishop Auckland No. 1 (1) Bishop Auckland No. 2 (1) ... List of parliamentary constituencies in County Durham; References This page was last ...
The county of Durham (including the Borough of Darlington) returned 7 MPs to the UK Parliament from 1983 to 2024. Under the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, coming into effect for the 2024 general election, the boundary commission proposed that one constituency be shared with the county of Tyne and Wear.
Under the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, as amended by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, the number of MPs is now fixed at 650. The Sainte-Laguë formula method is used to form groups of seats split between the four parts of the United Kingdom and the English regions (as defined by the NUTS 1 statistical ...