Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hemsworth Borough constituency
Hemsworth shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	Jon Trickett
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	West Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Hemsworth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat has consistently elected Labour MPs with large majorities, and in the February 1974 general election was the safest seat for any party, anywhere in the UK.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 2000s 3.2 1990s 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency covers the town of Hemsworth in West Yorkshire.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	John Guest	Labour
	1931	Gabriel Price	Labour
	1934	George Griffiths	Labour
	1946	Horace Holmes	Labour
	1959	Alan Beaney	Labour
	1974	Alec Woodall	Labour
	1987	George Buckley	Labour
	1991	Derek Enright	Labour
	1996	Jon Trickett	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2000s

General Election 2005: Hemsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Trickett	21,630	58.8	−6.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Mortimer	8,149	22.1	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Hall-Matthews	5,766	15.7	+4.4
	Veritas	John Burdon	1,247	3.4	N/A
Majority			13,481	36.6
Turnout			36,792	54.6	+2.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Hemsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Trickett	23,036	65.4	−5.2
	Conservative	Elizabeth Truss	7,400	21.0	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Waller	3,990	11.3	+2.5
	Socialist Labour	Paul Turek	801	2.3	N/A
Majority			15,636	44.4
Turnout			35,227	51.8	−16.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] 1990s

Hemsworth by-election, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Trickett	15,817	71.9	+1.1
	Conservative	N. Hazell	1,942	8.8	-9.8
	Liberal Democrats	J. Ridgeway	1,516	6.9	-3.7
	Socialist Labour	B. Nixon	1,193	5.4
	Monster Raving Loony	David Sutch	652	3.0
	UK Independence	P. Davis	455	2.1
	Green	P. Alexander	157	0.7
	Independent	Mark Thomas	122	0.6
	National Democrats	M. Cooper	111	0.5
	Natural Law	D. Leighton	28	0.1
Majority			13,875	63.1
Turnout				39.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.43

Hemsworth by-election, 1991
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Enright	15,895	66.3
	Liberal Democrats	V. Megson	4,808	20.1
	Conservative	G. Harrison	2,512	10.5
	Independent Labour	P. Ablett	648	2.7
	Corrective Party	T. Smith	108	0.45
Majority			11,097	46.3
Turnout			23,971
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
Labour	Barnsley Central | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Barnsley West and Penistone | Batley and Spen | Bradford North | Bradford South | Bradford West | Brigg and Goole | Calder Valley | City of York | Cleethorpes | Colne Valley | Dewsbury | Don Valley | Doncaster Central | Doncaster North | Elmet | Great Grimsby | Halifax | Hemsworth | Huddersfield | Keighley | Hull East | Hull North | Hull West and Hessle | Leeds Central | Leeds East | Leeds North East | Leeds West | Morley and Rothwell | Normanton | Pontefract and Castleford | Pudsey | Rother Valley | Rotherham | Scunthorpe | Selby | Sheffield Attercliffe | Sheffield Brightside | Sheffield Central | Sheffield Heeley | Sheffield Hillsborough | Wakefield | Wentworth
Conservative	Beverley and Holderness | East Yorkshire | Haltemprice and Howden | Richmond (Yorks) | Ryedale | Scarborough and Whitby | Shipley | Skipton and Ripon | Vale of York
Liberal Democrat	Harrogate and Knaresborough | Leeds North West | Sheffield Hallam
Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Labour (2) | Conservative (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)