Penistone | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Riding of Yorkshire |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Hallamshire and Holmfirth |
Replaced by | Barnsley West & Penistone and Sheffield Hillsborough |
Penistone was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Penistone in Yorkshire and surrounding countryside. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.
1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Clayton West, Denby and Cumberworth, Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, Hoyland Swaine, Kirkburton, Penistone, Shelley, Shepley, Skelmanthorpe, Stocksbridge, and Thurlstone, and the Rural Districts of Penistone and Wortley.
1950–1955: The Urban Districts of Denby Dale, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Kirkburton, Penistone, and Stocksbridge, and the Rural Districts of Penistone and Wortley.
1955–1983: The Urban Districts of Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Penistone, and Stocksbridge, and the Rural Districts of Penistone and Wortley.
The area formerly covered by this constituency was then placed mostly in the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency and partly in the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency.
Following a later boundary review, the Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency which came into force at the 2010 general election roughly covered a similar area to the old Penistone constituency.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sydney Arnold | Liberal | |
1921 by-election | William Gillis | Labour | |
1922 | William Pringle | Liberal | |
1924 | Rennie Smith | Labour | |
1931 | Clifford Glossop | Conservative | |
1935 | Henry McGhee | Labour | |
1959 by-election | John Mendelson | Labour | |
1978 by-election | Allen McKay | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Barnsley West and Penistone |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Allen McKay | 28,010 | 49.1 | −5.1 | |
Conservative | Ian James Dobkin | 18,309 | 32.1 | +8.1 | |
Liberal | David Chadwick | 10,772 | 18.9 | −2.9 | |
Majority | 9,701 | 17.0 | −13.2 | ||
Turnout | 57,091 | 78.9 | +4.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Allen McKay | 19,424 | 45.5 | −8.7 | |
Conservative | Ian James Dobkin | 14,053 | 32.9 | +8.9 | |
Liberal | David Chadwick | 9,241 | 21.6 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 5,371 | 12.6 | −17.6 | ||
Turnout | 42,718 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 27,146 | 54.2 | +4.5 | |
Conservative | G. C. W. Harris | 12,011 | 24.0 | −1.2 | |
Liberal | David Chadwick | 10,900 | 21.8 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 15,135 | 30.2 | +5.7 | ||
Turnout | 50,057 | 74.7 | −9.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 27,797 | 49.7 | −9.0 | |
Conservative | A. D. Wilkinson | 14,084 | 25.2 | −2.5 | |
Liberal | David Chadwick | 13,140 | 23.5 | +9.9 | |
Campaign for Social Democracy | M. Eaden | 867 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 13,713 | 24.5 | −6.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,888 | 84.1 | +10.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 31,615 | 58.7 | −3.6 | |
Conservative | Alan Pickup | 14,897 | 27.7 | +4.3 | |
Liberal | Derick Mirfin | 7,347 | 13.6 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 16,718 | 31.0 | −7.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,859 | 73.9 | −5.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 31,419 | 62.3 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Bryan Askew | 11,817 | 23.4 | −2.2 | |
Liberal | Ronald Swinden | 7,191 | 14.3 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 19,602 | 38.9 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,427 | 78.9 | −2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 29,784 | 58.1 | −3.0 | |
Conservative | Bryan Askew | 13,095 | 25.6 | −13.3 | |
Liberal | Ronald Swinden | 8,372 | 16.3 | New | |
Majority | 16,689 | 32.5 | +10.3 | ||
Turnout | 51,251 | 81.1 | −1.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 31,117 | 61.1 | −1.2 | |
Conservative | John Bedford Deby | 19,809 | 38.9 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 11,308 | 22.2 | −2.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,926 | 83.0 | +3.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Mendelson | 25,315 | 64.1 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | John Bedford Deby | 14,196 | 35.9 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 11,119 | 28.2 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 39,511 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McGhee | 29,432 | 62.3 | −1.9 | |
Conservative | Laurence B. Fulton | 17,796 | 37.7 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 11,636 | 24.6 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,228 | 80.0 | −5.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McGhee | 36,169 | 64.2 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Denton Hinchcliffe | 20,145 | 35.8 | +7.2 | |
Majority | 16,024 | 28.4 | −5.0 | ||
Turnout | 56,314 | 85.1 | −2.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McGhee | 34,979 | 62.0 | −3.8 | |
Conservative | Denton Hinchcliffe | 16,128 | 28.6 | −5.6 | |
Liberal | Anthony F Smith | 5,316 | 9.4 | New | |
Majority | 18,851 | 33.4 | +1.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,423 | 87.7 | +12.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McGhee | 40,180 | 65.8 | +12.3 | |
Conservative | R. G. Davies | 20,869 | 34.2 | −12.3 | |
Majority | 19,311 | 31.6 | +24.6 | ||
Turnout | 61,049 | 75.1 | +1.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McGhee | 23,869 | 53.5 | +17.9 | |
Conservative | Clifford Glossop | 20,783 | 46.5 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 3,086 | 7.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,652 | 73.3 | −8.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Clifford Glossop | 19,556 | 47.7 | +19.8 | |
Labour | Rennie Smith | 14,584 | 35.6 | −9.6 | |
Liberal | Thomas Neville | 6,821 | 16.7 | −10.2 | |
Majority | 4,972 | 12.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,961 | 81.9 | +0.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rennie Smith | 17,286 | 45.2 | +6.7 | |
Unionist | Francis George Bibbings | 10,640 | 27.9 | −6.2 | |
Liberal | Ashley Mitchell | 10,277 | 26.9 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 6,646 | 17.3 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 38,203 | 81.6 | +1.0 | ||
Registered electors | 46,810 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rennie Smith | 10,997 | 38.5 | +5.0 | |
Unionist | Charles Hodgkinson (soldier) | 9,718 | 33.1 | +4.5 | |
Liberal | William Pringle | 7,799 | 27.4 | −9.5 | |
Majority | 1,279 | 4.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,514 | 80.6 | +8.8 | ||
Registered electors | 35,358 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Pringle | 9,164 | 36.9 | +1.1 | |
Labour | Rennie Smith | 8,329 | 33.5 | −0.2 | |
Unionist | Charles Hodgkinson (soldier) | 7,369 | 29.6 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 835 | 3.4 | +1.3 | ||
Turnout | 24,862 | 71.8 | −1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 34,612 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Pringle | 8,924 | 35.8 | −3.6 | |
Labour | William Gillis | 8,382 | 33.7 | N/A | |
Unionist | Charles Hodgkinson (soldier) | 7,600 | 30.5 | −5.7 | |
Majority | 542 | 2.1 | −1.1 | ||
Turnout | 24,906 | 73.1 | +14.7 | ||
Registered electors | 34,071 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | William Gillis | 8,560 | 36.2 | New | |
Liberal | William Pringle | 7,984 | 33.7 | −5.7 | |
National Liberal | James Peace Hinchcliffe | 7,123 | 30.1 | −6.1 | |
Majority | 576 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 23,667 | 71.7 | +13.3 | ||
Registered electors | 32,988 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Sydney Arnold | 7,338 | 39.4 | ||
C | Unionist | Phillip Gatty Smith | 6,744 | 36.2 | |
Independent Labour | Frederick William Southern | 4,556 | 24.4 | ||
Majority | 594 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 18,638 | 58.4 | |||
Registered electors | 31,928 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
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