Sunderland (pronounced: , or ) is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.

Sunderland was a constituency of the House of Commons, created in 1832. It elected two Members of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election until it was split in to Sunderland North and Sunderland South in 1950.