Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, Jarrow and Gateshead East was first contested at the 2024 general election and is currently held by Kate Osborne of the Labour Party, who previously held the abolished constituency of Jarrow from 2019 to 2024. 

The abolished constituency of Jarrow only had five people to serve as MP – ‘Red’ Ellen Wilkinson (1935-1947), Ernest Fernyhough (1947-1979), Don Dixon (1979-1997), Stephen Hepburn (1997-2019), and Kate Osborne, who was elected in December 2019. 

Jarrow and Gateshead East constituency consists of part of the metropolitan district of South Tyneside, with wards in Bede, Boldon Colliery, Fellgate and Hedworth, Hebburn North, Hebburn South, Monkton, Primrose, as well as four wards from the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, covering Pelaw and Heworth, Wardley and Leam Lane, Felling and Windy Nook & Whitehills.