Barnsley East and Mexborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°31′52″N 1°21′40″W / 53.531°N 1.361°W

Barnsley East and Mexborough
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Barnsley East and Mexborough in South Yorkshire in 2005.
Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County	South Yorkshire
Major settlements	Wombwell, Mexborough
1997–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Barnsley East, Don Valley
Created from	Barnsley East
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Barnsley East and Mexborough was a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created in 1997, partially replacing Barnsley East, and was a safe seat for the Labour Party. At the 2010 general election, it was largely replaced by a re-established Barnsley East constituency.

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley wards of Brierley, Darfield, Dearne South, Dearne Thurnscoe, Wombwell North, and Wombwell South, and the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster wards of Mexborough and Richmond.

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

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 Barnsley East and 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.

The new Wentworth and Dearne seat includes the wards of Dearne North and Dearne South. This area includes Bolton-on-Dearne, Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe.

Members of Parliament

The constituency had one Member of Parliament since its creation in 1997, from the Labour Party.

Election		Member [1]	Party
	1997	Jeff Ennis	Labour
	2010	constituency abolished: see Barnsley East and Don Valley

Elections

Election results since 1983

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Barnsley East and Mexborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	20,779	62.9	-4.6
	Liberal Democrat	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 2001: Barnsley East and Mexborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Jeff Ennis	21,945	67.5	-5.6
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. 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
	UKIP	George C. Savage	662	2.0	N/A
Majority			16,789	51.6	-10.2
Turnout			32,509	49.5	-14.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

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 Democrat	David G. Willis	4,489	10.4	+2.0
	Socialist Labour	Ken Capstick	1,213	2.8	-2.5
	Referendum	Arthur J. Miles	797	1.8	N/A
	Independent	Miss Julie E. Hyland	201	0.5	0.0
Majority			26,763	61.8	-1.2
Turnout			43,335	63.6	-9.1
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)

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)