Blaydon and Consett | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | County Durham |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | None |
Seats | One |
Created from | Blaydon (part), North West Durham (part) |
Blaydon and Consett is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it will first be contested at the 2024 general election. [2]
The constituency will cross the boundary of the ceremonial counties of Durham and Tyne and Wear and will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise approximately half the electorate of each of the current (to be abolished) constituencies of Blaydon and North West Durham [4] and will include the following communities:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Vicky Anderson [5] | ||||
Reform UK | David Ayre [6] | ||||
Workers Party | Mark Logan [7] | ||||
Green | Richard Simpson [8] | ||||
Conservative | Angela Sterling [9] | ||||
Labour | Liz Twist [10] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
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