Barnsley East | |
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County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Barnsley East in South Yorkshire in 2010. |
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Location of South Yorkshire within England. |
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County | South Yorkshire |
Electorate | 68,243 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Wombwell |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Michael Dugher (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Barnsley East and Mexborough |
1983–1997 | |
Replaced by | Barnsley East and Mexborough, Barnsley Central |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Barnsley East is a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire which returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat was created as Barnsley East in 1983 and abolished to create Barnsley East and Mexborough in 1997. It was recreated as Barnsley East at the 2010 general election.
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Both between 1983 and 1997, and at the 2010 general election, this constituency has been a safe seat for the Labour Party.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire in the 2000s, the Boundary Commission for England divided the existing Barnsley East and Mexborough to split off Barnsley East from Mexborough, to create the new Barnsley East constituency.
The electoral wards used in the formation of the new constituency are the following:
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1983 | Terry Patchett | Labour | |
1996 by-election | Jeff Ennis | Labour | |
1997 | Constituency abolished: see Barnsley East and Mexborough and Barnsley Central |
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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2010 | Michael Dugher | Labour |
General Election 2010: Barnsley East[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Michael Dugher | 18,059 | 47.0 | −23.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Brown | 6,969 | 18.2 | +4.1 | |
Conservative | James Hockney | 6,329 | 16.5 | +3.8 | |
BNP | Colin Porter | 3,301 | 8.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Tony Watson | 1,731 | 4.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Kevin Hogan | 712 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Eddie Devoy | 684 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Ken Capstick | 601 | 1.6 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 11,090 | 28.9 | |||
Turnout | 38,396 | 56.1 | +7.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −14.0 |
Following the death of Terry Patchett on 11 October 1996, a by-election was held on 12 December 1996. The replacement Labour candidate Jeff Ennis held the seat for the party despite a low voter turnout.
Barnsley East by-election, 1996 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jeff Ennis | 13,683 | 76.4 | −0.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | David Willis | 1,502 | 8.4 | −0.2 | |
Conservative | Jane Ellison | 1,299 | 7.3 | −6.9 | |
Socialist Labour | Ken Capstick | 949 | 5.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Count Nikolai Tolstoy | 378 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Socialist Equality | Julie Hyland | 89 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,181 | 68.0 | +5.0 | ||
Turnout | 33.7 | -39.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.5 |
General Election 1992: Barnsley East[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Terry Patchett | 30,346 | 77.2 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | John M. Procter | 5,569 | 14.2 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs Sylvia Anginotti | 3,399 | 8.6 | −2.9 | |
Majority | 24,777 | 63.0 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 39,314 | 72.9 | +0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.3 |
General Election 1987: Barnsley East[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Terry Patchett | 29,948 | 74.5 | +8.2 | |
Conservative | James Clappison | 5,437 | 14.0 | −1.9 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | G.J. Griffiths | 4,482 | 11.5 | −7.3 | |
Majority | 23,511 | 60.5 | +12.0 | ||
Turnout | 72.6 | +5.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1983: Barnsley East[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Terry Patchett | 23,905 | 66.3 | N/A | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | P. Tomlinson | 6,413 | 17.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | G. England | 5,749 | 15.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,492 | 48.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 67.3 | N/A | |||
New creation: Labour gain. | Swing | N/A |