🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

North East

70,994 electors

Active Seat

Gateshead Central and Whickham

Current MP

Mark Ferguson

🗳️ Election History

Elections

57.6%

Avg Turnout

Times Changed

2024

Current Party Since

Labour Mark Ferguson Hold

Majority 9,644

Turnout 57.6%

Total Votes 40,217

✓ Mark Ferguson

Labour

18,245

↓1.7pp

Damian Heslop

Reform UK

8,601

↑17.5pp

Ron Beadle

Liberal Democrats

4,987

↑0.2pp

Nicholas Oliver

Conservative

4,628

↓21.5pp

Rachel Cabral

Green Party

3,217

↑4.2pp

Norman Hall

—

369

—

Graham Steele

—

170

—

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2021 Census

📊 Age

0 to 17

20.3%

35 to 49

19.3%

50 to 64

18.8%

65 and over

18.6% ▲0.0pp

25 to 34

14.7%

18 to 24

8.3%

🌍 Ethnicity

White

91.1%

Asian or Asian British

3.5%

Other

2.3%

Black, African, Caribbean or Black British

1.6%

Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups

1.5%

📊 Age

18 to 29

23.0%

Under 18

20.3%

30 to 44

19.3%

45 to 64

18.8%

65 and over

18.6%

⛪ Religion

Christian

48.6%

No religion

39.5%

Not answered

4.9%

Jewish

2.9%

Muslim

2.9%

Other religion

0.4%

Hindu

0.4%

Buddhist

0.3%

Sikh

0.2%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency

📚

No previous MPs found

No historic membership records available for this constituency