Hexham (UK Parliament constituency)

Hexham
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hexham in Northumberland.
Location of Northumberland within England.
County	Northumberland
Electorate	60,499 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Hexham, Corbridge, , Ponteland, Prudhoe, Wylam, Haydon Bridge, Haltwhistle
Current constituency
Created	1885
Member of parliament	Guy Opperman (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	North Northumberland and South Northumberland
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

Hexham is a constituency in Northumberland represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Guy Opperman, a Conservative.

This large seat reaches to the Pennines and traverses Hadrians Wall which runs almost due east–west through England, includes substantial agricultural holdings, forestry, wood processing, food, minerals, and manufactured hardware industries and has been held by the Conservative Party and rarely with only marginal majorities since 1924. In the midst of the northwest of the area is Kielder Water and running between this area and the middle of the seat is the southern portion of Kielder Forest, and in the west, the attractions of the precipitous Haltwhistle Burn, Viaduct and Castle. SSE of Hexham is the Derwent Reservoir. Aside from the geographical highlights as set out above this area also houses a portion of Newcastle's commuting middle-class; Hexham was the only Conservative seat in the North East between 1997–2010, and the only one in Northumberland from 1973 until the Conservatives won Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2015.

Demonstrated by latest published old age dependency ratios, a slightly larger than national average proportion of the is retired. Whilst the result in 1997 saw the Labour Party within touching distance of winning the seat generally, results suggest the seat is a safe seat for candidates of the Conservative party.