Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°30′29″N 1°36′25″W / 53.508°N 1.607°W

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

The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley wards of Dodworth, Penistone East, and Penistone West, and the City of Sheffield wards of East Ecclesfield, Stocksbridge and Upper Don, and West Ecclesfield.

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 occupied mostly by commuters to Sheffield (also Leeds and Manchester). 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, used as a left-wing residential adult education establishment.^{[n 3]}

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	2010	Angela Smith	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Penistone and Stocksbridge[3][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	+3.9

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

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

Notes and references

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. 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.
3. 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.

References

1. "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
3. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
4. "Penistone & Stocksbridge". BBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
5. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

Sources

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