Wahlkreis Hartlepool

Vorlage:Infobox UK constituency main Hartlepool Vorlage:IPAc-en is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the U.K. Parliament which has elected a Labour member to serve it since 1964. In the most recent general election (2010) the Conservative candidate achieved second place and the Liberal Democrat's candidate polled 13.3% less than the party achieved in the 2005 election.

Boundaries

The seat is currently coterminous with the borough of Hartlepool, which has close to the average population for a UK parliamentary constituency. The seat includes the town of Hartlepool itself and the nearby villages of Hart, Elwick, Greatham, Newton Bewley and Dalton Piercy. Before 1974 the seat was known as The Hartlepools (reflecting the representation of both 'old' Hartlepool and West Hartlepool).

History

Hartlepool was enfranchised as a borough constituency by the Reform Act 1867, being given one MP. It had previously been part of a two-MP electoral division in County Durham.

Since the Second World War, Hartlepool has been a Labour constituency, though it has attracted surprises at times. It was held by the Conservatives between 1959–1964,and in the 1992 general election, Edward Leadbitter stood down and was succeeded by the former Labour Director of Communications Peter Mandelson. Mandelson's pivotal role in the reshaping of the Labour Party into New Labour has attracted much attention and he has become a prominent target. During the first term of office of the Labour government he was twice appointed to the Cabinet and twice forced to resign amid controversial small scandals. In the 2001 general election, there was a prominent contest when the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and current leader of the Socialist Labour Party, Arthur Scargill stood, hoping to exploit uneasiness about "New Labour" in the traditional Labour heartlands. In the event, Mandelson held his seat, while Scargill polled only 912 votes. Mandelson shocked many with a highly triumphalist victory speech in which he declared "They underestimated Hartlepool, and they underestimated me, because I am a fighter and not a quitter!"[1].

The following year, the town's first direct Mayoral election generated surprise when the mascot of Hartlepool United F.C., H'Angus the Monkey (real name Stuart Drummond) was elected on a platform that included free bananas for schoolchildren.

Mandelson quit his role as MP for Hartlepool when he was appointed as a European Commissioner in the summer of 2004. This triggered a by-election that took place on 30 September 2004. The Hartlepool by-election was the last before the 2005 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Political Party	Offices Held
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1868	Ralph Ward Jackson	Conservative
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1874	Thomas Richardson	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1875 by-election	Lowthian Bell	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1880	Thomas Richardson	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |	1886		Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1891 by-election	Christopher Furness	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" |	1895	Sir Thomas Richardson	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1900	Sir Christopher Furness	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1910 by-election	Stephen Furness	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1914 by-election	Sir Walter Runciman	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1918	William George Howard Gritten	Conservative
style="background-color: Vorlage:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1922	William Jowitt	Liberal
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1924	Sir Wilfred Sugden	Conservative/Unionist
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1929	William George Howard Gritten	Conservative
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1943 by-election	Col. Thomas George Greenwell	Conservative
style="background-color: Vorlage:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1945	David Thomas Jones	Labour
style="background-color: Vorlage:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1959	Cmdr John Simon Kerans	Conservative
style="background-color: Vorlage:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1964	Edward Leadbitter	Labour
style="background-color: Vorlage:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1992	Peter Mandelson	Labour	Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (11 October 1999 – 24 January 2001), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (27 July 1998 – 23 December 1998), Minister without Portfolio (2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998)
style="background-color: Vorlage:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	2004 by-election	Iain Wright	Labour	Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for 14-19 Reform and Apprenticeships (9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010)

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

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See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

Notes and References

Notes

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. Vorlage:Reflist Vorlage:Constituencies in North East England