Houghton and Sunderland South (UK Parliament constituency)

Houghton and Sunderland South
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Houghton and Sunderland South in Tyne and Wear.
Location of Tyne and Wear within England.
County	Tyne and Wear
Electorate	70,115 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Bridget Phillipson (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Sunderland South, Houghton and Washington East
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

Coordinates: 54°51′30″N 1°26′30″W / 54.85833°N 1.44167°W / 54.85833; -1.44167

Houghton and Sunderland South /ˈhoʊtən.ənd.ˈsʊn.dərˌlənd.saʊθ/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Bridget Phillipson of the Labour Party. In 2010 and 2015 it was the first constituency to declare its result.

Houghton and Sunderland South is a medium density inland area partly on the south banks of the River Wear mostly populated by people of working age that has a minority of the population who live in rural villages. The majority of the population historically relied on coal mining, steelworks and shipbuilding from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries on Wearside with Tyne and Wear at the forefront of some of the earliest Labour Party activity and several of its earliest Members of Parliament. During the 2010 Parliament, Houghton and Sunderland South is the 70th safest Labour seat in the country. The largest opposition was in 2010 from the Conservative Party.