Barnsley North (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2024 onwards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barnsley North is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.[2] Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and represented by Dan Jarvis of the Labour Party.
| Barnsley North | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Boundaries since 2024 | |
 Boundary of Barnsley North in Yorkshire and the Humber | |
| County | South Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 76,552 (June 2024)[1] |
| Borough | Barnsley |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2024 |
| Member of Parliament | Dan Jarvis (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | |
The constituency comprises the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley (as they existed on 1 December 2020):[3]
- Central, Darton East, Darton West, Monk Bretton, Old Town, Royston, and St Helens from Barnsley Central
- Cudworth and North East from Barnsley East[4]
To assess impact of the boundary changes various organisation calculated results of 2019 election if it was conducted under boundaries established by 2023 Periodic review. Below is such assessment from BBC for Barnsley North:
Notional result of 2019 election under new (2023) boundaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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For more information see Notional results of the 2019 United Kingdom general election by 2024 constituency.
Barnsley Central prior to 2024
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dan Jarvis | Labour | |
Elections in the 2020s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Dan Jarvis | 18,610 | 50.4 | +11.9 | |
| Reform UK | Robert Lomas[a] | 10,799 | 29.3 | −0.2 | |
| Conservative | Tamas Kovacs | 3,083 | 8.4 | −15.6 | |
| Green | Tom Heyes | 1,805 | 4.9 | +2.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Penny Baker | 1,336 | 3.6 | ±0.0 | |
| Independent | Neil Fisher | 616 | 1.7 | N/A | |
| Yorkshire | Tony Devoy | 603 | 1.6 | ±0.0 | |
| English Democrat | Janus Polenceusz | 42 | 0.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 7,811 | 21.1 | +12.1 | ||
| Turnout | 36,894 | 47.1 | –10.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 78,267 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Elections in the 2010s
| 2019 notional result[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Labour | 17,141 | 38.5 | |
| Brexit Party | 13,139 | 29.5 | |
| Conservative | 10,663 | 24.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1,588 | 3.6 | |
| Green | 1,051 | 2.4 | |
| Others | 898 | 2.0 | |
| Turnout | 44,480 | 57.9 | |
| Electorate | 76,794 | ||
- After nominations for the 2024 general election closed, Reform UK withdrew support for Lomas on the 29 June, after reports of alleged racist comments.[8]
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