UK 2005- Seat by Seat Part 17 (The North)

[Silent Hunter]

Constituency MP Name Party Prediction 
Barrow and Furness  John Hutton  LAB Hold
Berwick-upon-Tweed  Alan Beith  LIB Hold
Bishop Auckland  Derek Foster  LAB Hold
Blaydon  John McWilliam  LAB Hold
Blyth Valley  Ronnie Campbell  LAB Hold
Carlisle  Eric Martlew  LAB Hold
Copeland LAB Hold: The 'enforcer' Jack Cummingham is retiring. Possible Tory pickup.
Darlington  Alan Milburn  LAB Hold
Durham North  Kevan Jones  LAB Hold
Durham North West  Hilary Armstrong  LAB Hold
Durham, City Of  LAB Hold
Easington  John Cummings  LAB Hold
Gateshead East and Washington West  Joyce Quin  LAB Hold
Hartlepool Iain Wright  LAB Hold
Hexham  Peter Atkinson  CON Hold
Houghton and Washington East  Fraser Kemp  LAB Hold
Jarrow  Stephen Hepburn  LAB Hold
Middlesborough  Stuart Bell  LAB Hold
Middlesborough South and Cleveland East  Ashok Kumar  LAB Hold
Newcastle upon Tyne Central  Jim Cousins  LAB Hold
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend  Nick Brown  LAB Hold
Newcastle upon Tyne North  Doug Henderson  LAB Hold
Penrith and The Border  David Maclean  CON Hold
Redcar  Vera Baird  LAB Hold
Sedgefield  Tony Blair  LAB Hold: Blair's going to get a small protest vote against him, but this is a walk.
South Shields  David Miliband  LAB Hold
Stockton North  Frank Cook  LAB Hold
Stockton South  Dari Taylor  LAB Hold: Unless Katie Price aka 'Jordan' runs again as an independent, this will probably get the biggest celeb run- it's got the Governor from Bad Girls for the Tories (James Gaddas).  It'll be a case of 'Go straight back to Jail' for Gaddas.
Sunderland North  Bill Etherington  LAB Hold
Sunderland South  Chris Mullin  LAB Hold: It's certain. This constituency declared first in the last three elections and I think it will do so again. I intend to use its declaration time as a tiebreaker in a prediction contest.
Tyne Bridge  David Clelland  LAB Hold
Tynemouth  Alan Campbell  LAB Hold
Tyneside North  Stephen Byers  LAB Hold
Wansbeck  Denis Murphy  LAB Hold
Westmorland and Lonsdale  Tim Collins  CON Hold
Workington  Tony Cunningham  LAB Hold

[English]

Agreed.
Westmorland could be a shock gain for the LD, here's hoping anyway!!

[Silent Hunter]

Stockton South's candidate:

http://www.stockton-conservatives.com/james.htm

[English]

Stockton South's candidate:

http://www.stockton-conservatives.com/james.htm

WHAT!!!! I thought he looked familiar!

[Democratic Hawk]

I'm glad to see you have City of Durham as a Labour hold. However, I expect a reduced majority

Dave

[Silent Hunter]

There are suggestions in Private Eye that Foster will step down from Bishop Auckland in return for a peerage just before the election.

[Democratic Hawk]

There are suggestions in Private Eye that Foster will step down from Bishop Auckland in return for a peerage just before the election.

I'm not too worried. It's a safe Labour seat. I still have some anxiety about Durham - but Labour topped the Euro vote, just!

Dave

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There are suggestions in Private Eye that Foster will step down from Bishop Auckland in return for a peerage just before the election.

If that's true, Foster probably leaked it himself. Come to think of it, even if it isn't true Foster probably leaked it himself.
Cunning old get...
Either way Bishop stays red.

[Silent Hunter]

Do you think Sunderland South will make it four in a row on declaring first?

[minionofmidas]

Do you think Sunderland South will make it four in a row on declaring first?

They're working on it.

[Peter]

The more important question is: Will they beat their 43 minute record? Soon they are going to need police escorts just to get the ballot boxes to the counting hall as quickly as possible.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Amazing as this may seem... Sunderland South actually had a Tory M.P in the '50's...

How things change

[Silent Hunter]

Updated.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Jack Cunningham (Labour M.P for Copeland (nee Whitehaven) since 1970 is standing down this election