Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Penistone and Stocksbridge
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Penistone and Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire.
Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County	South Yorkshire
Electorate	69,133 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Stocksbridge, Penistone
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Angela Smith (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Sheffield Hillsborough (part) (still extant) Barnsley West and Penistone (part)
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Penistone and Stocksbridge is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Angela Smith of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries 1
History 2
Constituency profile 3
Members of Parliament 4
Elections 5
- Elections in the 2010s 5.1
See also 6
Notes and references 7
Sources 8

Boundaries

The electoral wards used in the creation of Penistone and Stocksbridge are:

East Ecclesfield, Stocksbridge and Upper Don and West Ecclesfield in the City of Sheffield
Dodworth, Penistone East and Penistone West in Barnsley Metropolitan Borough^[2]

History

The seat largely resembles the old Penistone Constituency, which, following the election of a Conservative in the Conservative landslide in 1931, returned MPs representing the Labour Party through to its abolition in 1983.

In 1983, two new constituencies were formed, Sheffield Hillsborough and Barnsley West and Penistone, both of which returned Labour MPs at every election they were fought. The 2010 result was that of a marginal Labour majority.

Constituency profile

The seat is most heavily populated on its eastern fringe, with communities built largely on the coal and steel industries, such as the ex-mining village of Dodworth and the steelworking town of Stocksbridge. Penistone too has a history of steelworking at the David Brown and high-tech foundries although many local people are or have been employed at the Hepworth pipeworks (formerly Hepworth Iron Co./Hepworth Building Products) which specialising in the manufacture of pipes, mains and domestic and whose fortunes vary with demand in construction. Between these urban areas are rural villages including Oxspring, Wortley, Greenmoor and Thurgoland. The western area of the constituency is in the Peak District National Park.

The seat contains three significant stately homes. Cannon Hall (home of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Pre-Raphaelites) is open-the-public as the 13th/18th Royal Hussars Museum, while Wortley Hall (ancestral home of the Wortley-Montagu family) is largely used by trade unions and their families, and the third is Wentworth Castle.^{[n 3]}

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[3]	Party
	2010	Angela Smith	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Penistone and Stocksbridge^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Smith	19,691	42.0	+4.3
	Conservative	Steven Jackson	12,968	27.7	-3.5
	UKIP	Graeme Waddicar	10,738	22.9	+18.8
	Liberal Democrat	Rosalyn Gordon	2,957	6.3	-14.8
	English Democrats	Colin Porter	500	1.1	0.0
Majority			6,723	14.3
Turnout			46,854	65.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2010: Penistone and Stocksbridge^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Smith*	17,565	37.8	-7.4
	Conservative	Spencer Pitfield	14,516	31.2	+7.5
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Cuthbertson	9,800	21.1	-3.7
	BNP	Paul James	2,207	4.7	+0.0
	UKIP	Grant French	1,936	4.2	+2.5
	English Democrats	Paul McEnhill	492	1.1	+1.1
Majority			3,049	6.6
Turnout			46,516	67.9	+5.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.5

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

Notes and references

Notes

^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
^ These are open for most of the year, the former as a regimental museum and the latter for special events thus providing recreational and tourism income alongside the Peak District. Part of Wentworth Castle is used as a residential adult education establishment.

References

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
^ "Penistone & Stocksbridge". BBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
^ Penistone and Stocksbridge, UKPollingReport

Sources

Sheffield Recommendations of the Boundary Commission for England.
Summary of the Sheffield Parliamentary Boundary Review.

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54)

Labour (33)	Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford East Bradford South Bradford West Dewsbury Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North Great Grimsby Halifax Hemsworth Huddersfield Hull East Hull North Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds West Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Rotherham Scunthorpe Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central

Conservative (19)	Beverley and Holderness Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Morley and Outwood Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer

Liberal Democrats (2)	Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam

Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (2) UKIP (2)

Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)