Election candidates 1945-2024: North East region
The North East became barren territory for the Liberal Party as early as the 1920s and remained so, except for a handful of constituencies where the party commanded vestigial support, until the final years of the C20th. Many constituencies were left unfought for decades, possibly a greater percentage than in any other region of Britain. Hence the following pages contain fewer names compared with the Indices for other regions. Few of the candidates listed ever contested constituencies in other regions.
The North East has sent only three Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs to Westminster over the past 70 years yet it has produced a number of major party personalities, colourful characters, eccentrics and the occasional dubious maverick.
The constituencies which comprise the Northeast Region at the present time are, for the purposes of this Index, deemed to have been included in the area since 1945, regardless of local government and county boundary changes which have taken place since then.
Lionel King