Stockton-on-Tees
Formerborough constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundary of Stockton-on-Tees inCounty Durham, boundaries 1974–1983
County	Cleveland
1868–1983
Seats	One
Created from	South Durham
Replaced by	Stockton North andStockton South

Stockton-on-Tees is a formerborough constituency represented in theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom. It elected oneMember of Parliament (MP) by thefirst past the post system of election from 1868 to 1983.

The constituency was created as the parliamentary borough of Stockton by theReform Act 1867,^[1] but was named asStockton-on-Tees under the Boundary Act 1868.^[2] It included Thornaby-on-Tees until the redistribution of seats for the1950 general election.

In 1966, the borough of Stockton was absorbed into the newly createdCounty Borough of Teesside and at the next periodic review of parliamentary constituencies which came into effect for theFebruary 1974 election, it was officially named asTeesside, Stockton. A furtherlocal government reorganisation which came into effect in April 1974 saw Stockton re-established as a borough within the new county ofCleveland and, at the next redistribution which did not come into effect until the1983 election, the Stockton-on-Tees constituency was abolished. The majority of the electorate, includingStockton town centre,Norton andBillingham were included in the newStockton North seat, with parts included inStockton South.

Under theReform Act 1867, the proposed contents of the new parliamentary borough were defined as the municipal borough of Stockton, and the township of Thornaby.^[1] However, this was amended under the Boundary Act 1868, with the boundary being extended to include the whole of theparish of Stockton, part of the township of Linthorpe and most of the parish of Norton.^[2]

See map on Vision of Britain website.^[3]

The Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby-on-Tees.^[4]

Minor changes. Boundaries aligned to those of the local authorities.

The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.^[5]

Thornaby-on-Tees transferred toMiddlesbrough West.

The County Borough of Teesside wards of Billingham East, Billingham West, Grangefield, Hartburn, Mile House, North End, Norton, Stockton South.^[6]

Billingham transferred from the abolished constituency ofSedgefield.

Dodds resigned, causing a by-election.

Communist Party candidate George Short submitted correct nomination papers but refused to submit the required deposit of £150, so his nomination was rejected.^[11]

General Election 1939–40:Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative:Harold Macmillan
• Labour: J Erskine Harper^[12]
• Liberal: Gerald Tossell^[13]

• History of parliamentary constituencies and boundaries in Durham

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services.ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)

• Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland (historic)
• Politics of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1868
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983

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