Barnsley East and Mexborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barnsley East and Mexborough County constituency

Barnsley East and Mexborough shown within South Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Jeff Ennis
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	South Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Barnsley East and Mexborough is a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire. It is considered a safe Labour seat and has been represented by Jeff Ennis since the 1996 by-election. The seat was created as Barnsley East in 1983, and the name altered to its present form in 1997. It will revert to Barnsley East at the next UK general election.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Elections
4 See also
5 Sources

[edit] Boundaries

Barnsley East and Mexborough constituency covers the eastern part of the Borough of Barnsley and includes the town of Mexborough (in the borough of Doncaster). It borders the constituencies of Barnsley Central, Barnsley West and Penistone, Wentworth, Don Valley, Doncaster Central, Doncaster North, Selby, and Hemsworth.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England has split the existing Barnsley East seat from Mexborough, to create a smaller modified Barnsley East constituency.

This means the 2005 election was the last for the current Barnsley East/Mexborough constituency. The electoral wards used in the formation of the new East division are:

Cudworth, Darfield, Hoyland Milton, North East, Rockingham, Stairfoot, Wombwell and Worsbrough.

[edit] Members of Parliament

The constituency has had two Members of Parliament since its creation in 1983, both of which were from the Labour Party.

Year	Member	Party
1983	Terry Patchett	Labour
1996	Jeff Ennis	Labour

[edit] Elections

Election results since 1983

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General election of 2005

General Election 2005: Barnsley East and Mexborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	20,779	62.9	-4.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sharron Brook	6,654	20.1	+4.2
	Conservative	Carolyn Abbott	4,853	14.7	+2.3
	Socialist Labour	Terry Robinson	740	2.2	0.0
Majority			14,125	42.8	-8.8
Turnout			33,026	49.3	-0.2
	Labour hold		Swing	-4.4

General election of 2001

General Election 2001: Barnsley East and Mexborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	21,945	67.5	-5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Sharron Brook	5,156	15.9	+5.5
	Conservative	Matthew Offord	4,024	12.4	+1.0
	Socialist Labour	Terry Robinson	722	2.2	-0.6
	UK Independence	George Savage	662	2.0	N/A
Majority			16,789	51.6	-10.2
Turnout			32,509	49.5	-14.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General election of 1997

General Election 1997: Barnsley East and Mexborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	31,699	73.1	−3.3
	Conservative	Jane Ellison	4,936	11.4	+4.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Willis	4,489	10.4	+2.0
	Socialist Labour	Ken Capstick	1,213	2.8	-2.5
	Referendum Party	A. Miles	797	1.8	N/A
	Independent	Julie Hyland	201	0.5	0.0
Majority			26,763	61.8	-1.2
Turnout				63.6	-9.1
	Labour hold		Swing

By-election of 1996

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.

By-Election 1996: Barnsley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	13,683	76.4	−0.8
	Liberal Democrats	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
	UK Independence	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

General election of 1992

General Election 1992: Barnsley East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terry Patchett	30,346	77.2	+2.7
	Conservative	John Proctor	5,569	14.2	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Anginotti	3,399	8.6	−2.9
Majority			24,777	63.0	+2.5
Turnout				72.7	+0.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General election of 1987

General Election 1987: Barnsley East
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 of 1983

General Election 1983: Barnsley East
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

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

[edit] Sources

BBC Election 2005
BBC Vote 2001
Guardian Unlimited Politics (Election results from 1992 to the present)
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources (1983 and 1987 results)

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)