Wentworth and Dearne | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | South Yorkshire |
Electorate | 73,863 (December 2019) [1] |
Major settlements | Dearne and Rawmarsh |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | John Healey (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Wentworth Barnsley East and Mexborough |
Wentworth and Dearne is a constituency [n 1] in South Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by John Healey, a member of the Labour Party who has served as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence since 2020. [n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes, which will entail the loss of the two Dearne wards, offset by the addition of the City of Doncaster wards of Conisbrough, and Edlington and Warmsworth. As a consequence of these changes, it will be renamed Rawmarsh and Conisbrough , to be first contested at the 2024 general election. [2]
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies recommending the creation of this constituency for the 2010 general election.
Most forerunner parts of the seat of Wentworth (which only existed in its second period from 1983 until 2010) matched its record of being a safe seat for the Labour Party. However, since the 2019 general election, the seat has become a marginal between Labour and the Conservative Party. Labour's majority over the Conservatives currently stands at 2,165. Labour's vote share declined by 24.7% at the 2019 election, the second-worst decline in vote share it suffered in any of the 630 constituencies that the party contested at that election (only being surpassed by the 24.9% decline in the Labour vote share in Bassetlaw). [3]
The present member, John Healey, held a continuous period of frontbench positions, withstanding during this time various rotations of the Labour frontbench – the positions were:
In September 2015 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Housing (attending Shadow Cabinet)
The seat comprises satellite settlements to two large Yorkshire towns, separated by green buffers, in a band north of Rotherham and southeast of Barnsley and as such has the electoral wards:
Most of the constituency succeeds Wentworth however the large settlement of Dearne was instead the largest in Barnsley East and Mexborough. The name of the seat stems from the village that shares its name with the largest private house in the country and listed gardens in the seat, Wentworth Woodhouse, in a similar manner, with a widened use of an otherwise scarcely populated settlement, as Sefton and Tatton.
The South Yorkshire settlements grew in the seat into primarily large town size developments from the large presence of coal leading to extensive mining in this area, coupled with convenient proximity to Sheffield, the canals and rivers network, as well as to Doncaster, York, Wakefield and Leeds. As the mining industry has suffered a decline and agriculture employs few people, niche manufacturing, general processing (such as of food and raw materials) as well as retail and distribution are critical sectors of the economy to local employment. Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 5.6% of the population, based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [5]
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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2010 | John Healey | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Healey | 16,742 | 40.3 | -24.7 | |
Conservative | Emily Barley | 14,577 | 35.1 | +3.8 | |
Brexit Party | Stephen Cavell | 7,019 | 16.9 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Janice Middleton | 1,705 | 4.1 | +0.3 | |
Yorkshire | Lucy Brown | 1,201 | 2.9 | New | |
SDP | David Bettney | 313 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 2,165 | 5.2 | -28.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,557 | 55.8 | -2.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -14.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Healey | 28,547 | 65.0 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | Steven Jackson | 13,744 | 31.3 | +16.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janice Middleton | 1,656 | 3.8 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 14,803 | 33.7 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 43,947 | 58.7 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Healey | 24,571 | 56.9 | +6.3 | |
UKIP | Mike Hookem | 10,733 | 24.9 | +16.7 | |
Conservative | Michael Naughton | 6,441 | 14.9 | -2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Edwin Simpson | 1,135 | 2.6 | -13.5 | |
English Democrat | Alan England | 309 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 13,838 | 32.0 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 43,189 | 58.1 | +0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.2 | |||
This seat was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Healey* | 21,316 | 50.6 | −11.2 | |
Conservative | Michelle Donelan | 7,396 | 17.6 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nick Love | 6,787 | 16.1 | −0.1 | |
UKIP | John Wilkinson | 3,418 | 8.1 | +4.6 | |
BNP | William Baldwin | 3,189 | 7.6 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 13,920 | 33.0 | |||
Turnout | 42,106 | 58.0 | +3.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −7.5 | |||
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