Easington (UK Parliament constituency)

Easington
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Easington in County Durham.
Location of County Durham within England.
County	County Durham
Electorate	65,618 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Grahame Morris (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Seaham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

Coordinates: 54°47′24″N 1°21′07″W / 54.790°N 1.352°W / 54.790; -1.352

Easington is a constituency created in 1950 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Grahame Morris of the Labour Party.

Constituents' occupations include to a significant degree agriculture and the service sector, however the area was formerly heavily economically supported by the mining of coal, iron ore and businesses in the county still extract gangue minerals in present mining, such as fluorspar for the smelting of aluminium, to the south in the county is Darlington, which has particular strengths in international transport construction, including bridges. To the north is the large city of Sunderland which has a large service sector.

Following their review the Boundary Commission for England created the political division. It chiefly replaced the bulk or all of the Seaham seat.

The area has been held by the Labour Party since the 1922 election (including predecessor seat), when the seat was held by the party leader and Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. The 2015 result made the seat the 27th safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.