North West Durham

North West Durham
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North West Durham in County Durham.
Location of County Durham within England.
County	County Durham
Electorate	72,760 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Consett, Crook, Lanchester and Willington
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Pat Glass (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Barnard Castle
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Consett and Barnard Castle
Created from	South Durham North Durham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	North East England

North West Durham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Pat Glass of the Labour Party. Both the current Conservative Party leader, Theresa May, and the current Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, were their party's candidate for the seat at the 1992 general election.

A first incarnation of the seat occurred under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 however this was abolished in 1918 to create Consett and to enlarge, using its Weardale part, Barnard Castle. During the first creation Liberals represented the area and its first member until 1914 was the son of a prominent Chartist, Ernest Jones, and helped to promote New Liberalism, encouraging the Liberal Party to take on instead the politics of "mass working-class" appeal. This politics was epitomised by David Lloyd George whose People's Budget, 1909 led to the supremacy of the House of Commons over the House of Lords, national pensions under a barebones welfare state (without a National Health Service).

On its recreation in 1950 North-West Durham became the successor to Barnard Castle save for the town of that name and its immediate vicinity which instead joined the Bishop Auckland seat. Consett was abolished in 1983 having seen a gradual decline in population in the latter half of its years, and its area was added to North West Durham that year. Throughout this second creation the seat has been represented in Westminster by members of the Labour Party.