What Sunderland Votes?

North East and Sunderland as industrial areas has maintained support for the Labour Party. This seat created by the areas of the Sunderland South and West and supporters from all over the area of Central Sunderland including suburbs of Ryhope, Fullwell,Southwick, Hendon and Roker.

Historically Sunderland’s economy was based on coal mining and ship-building industries but due to socio-economic changes, the area followed to high levels of unemployment and loss of hundred jobs. The heavy industrial yards closed and the area affected by the hard changes that the residents had to face.

Since the late 1980s, millions pounds have been invested in the city and new development structures have taken place in Sunderland’s ‘renovation’.

The Stadium of Light occupies the former coal mining site, new factories and companies which located in the area such as Nissan, T-Mobile and Northern Electric are now constitute jobs ‘providers’ for the local population.