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Sunderland

Sunderland may refer to:

  • Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, a city in the North East of England
    • The City of Sunderland, the metropolitan borough named after and containing the above settlement, along with Washington and Houghton-le-Spring
    • Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)
    • Sunderland A.F.C., professional football team of the city
Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)

Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons, created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the bloc vote system of election until it was split into single-member seats of Sunderland North and Sunderland South for the 1950 general election.

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Among the towns which were proposed to be comprehended were Macclesfield, Stockport, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Brighton, Whitehaven, Wolverhampton, Sunderland, Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Dudley, Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield, North and South Shields, and it was stated that the same principle would extend to the representation of such large cities as Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Belfast.

The original Sunderland plans had the accommodation both fore and aft: Henry Kaiser's designers, in their wisdom - blind folly as it turned out - had all their accommodation, for both officers and men, including also the navigating bridge, grouped in a single superstructure surrounding the funnel.