Political Structure in Sunderland
Sunderland is a local government constituency formed in 1974 as the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland and as part of four former government districts of Durham. It was granted city status in 1992.
The county is split into 14 different parliamentary constituencies. Labour has dominated these of recent times, in 2005 they had all 14 of them and is traditionally a labour stronghold. There may be a change in the amount of parliamentary constituencies in the region after a review by the Boundary Commission, the change may lead to the number of parliamentary constituencies being reduced by one.
Three of the regions local unitary authorities were under the control of labour in 2005, Newcastle City Council and North Tyneside Council were the exceptions and were controlled by the Liberal Democrats. But no one party has complete and total control over North Tyneside. The 2005 and 2001 general election results are shown below;
The 2005 general election
|
Votes |
Share |
Chris Mullin, Labour |
17,982 |
58.6 |
Robert Oliver, Conservative |
6,923 |
22.5 |
Gareth Kane, Liberal Democrat |
4,492 |
14.6 |
David Guynan, British National Party |
1,166 |
3.8 |
Roslyn Warner, Official Monster Raving Loony Party |
149 |
0 |
Labour majority: 11,059
Time of declaration: May 05 2005 22:45
Turnout: 49.3 %
The 2001 general election
|
Votes |
Share |
Chris Mullin, Labour |
19,921 |
63.9 |
Jim Boyd, Conservative |
6,254 |
20.1 |
Mark Greenfield, Liberal Democrat |
3,675 |
11.8 |
Joe Dobbie, British National Party |
576 |
1.9 |
Joseph Moore, UK Independence Party |
470 |
1.5 |
Ms Rosalyn Warner, Official Monster Raving Loony Party |
291 |
0.9 |
Labour majority: 13,667
Time of declaration: June 07 2001 22:42
Turnout: 48.3 %