Newcastle upon Tyne East (UK Parliament constituency)

Newcastle upon Tyne East
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Newcastle upon Tyne East in Tyne and Wear for the 2010 general election.
Location of Tyne and Wear within England.
County	Tyne and Wear
Electorate	65,203 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Nick Brown (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend; Tyne Bridge
1918–1997
Replaced by	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
Created from	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

Newcastle upon Tyne East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Nick Brown of the Labour Party.

Parliament created this constituency in the Representation of the People Act 1918 however its first creation was eventually absorbed in 1997 by the new Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend seat. Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which recommended the recreation of the seat for the 2010 general election.

Apart from a quite widespread party defection in 1981 to the SDP, successive members of the Labour Party have represented this constituency in Westminster since 1964 (including its interim successors). Since 1970, the double-digit majorities won suggest in all three previous forms of the constituency and today's constituency have been safe seats.

For the Labour Party was likely to be more marginal since 2006 when a Liberal Democrat local popularity strengthened, winning council seats across the constituency with large majorities. This indicated a possibility of Labour losing the seat to the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election. In the event, Labour's Nick Brown held the seat with the smallest majority in 44 years, and in the simultaneous local elections Labour benefitted from the associated increased turnout to take the Walkergate Council Ward from the Liberal Democrats.