Post by YL on May 30, 2020 18:28:41 GMT
This constituency consists of a number of areas which have been part of the borough of Barnsley since 1974 but which were previously administered separately. These include Worsbrough, which is the most integrated into the town of Barnsley, and the towns of Hoyland, Wombwell, Darfield and Cudworth, which are to the south and east of Barnsley itself. One of its best known communities is the village of Grimethorpe, famous for its brass band which inspired the 1990s film Brassed Off. Elsecar, essentially the southern part of Hoyland, is known for its Heritage Centre. The constituency does not in fact include the easternmost parts of the borough, which are in Wentworth & Dearne.
This is very much a coalfield constituency, with all the communities in the constituency having mining connections, and it includes the birthplace of Arthur Scargill. Unsurprisingly it is a deprived working class constituency. All of the communities in the constituency have census areas with very high deprivation, and although they do mostly have some less deprived areas "less deprived" here is still usually more deprived than the English median. Overall Grimethorpe is the most deprived area, with Hoyland perhaps being a little bit better off than most of the rest of the constituency.
Numbers in professional or managerial employment are low, as are numbers with higher education qualifications, while numbers with no qualifications are very high, reaching close to 50% in a couple of census areas in Worsbrough and Grimethorpe. Again there are some areas which are closer to the median for these statistics, for example in Hemingfield, east of Hoyland, but there is nowhere where the demographics can really be described as middle class. There is very little ethnic diversity, with the constituency being 98% white in 2011.
The consituency was created in 1983, and at that point did not include Hoyland or Worsbrough; previously Darfield and Wombwell had been in Dearne Valley and Cudworth and Grimethorpe in Hemsworth. In 1997 it gained parts of Doncaster borough and was renamed Barnsley East & Mexborough, but it lost these again in 2010, and also lost Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Bolton on Dearne, which went to Wentworth & Dearne, but gained Hoyland and Worsbrough from the dismembered Barnsley West & Penistone.
Barnsley East and all its predecessors have been consistently represented by Labour MPs since 1935. In recent times Labour has had some trouble from the populist right. In 2010 the Labour vote fell sharply to below 50%, with the British National Party receiving over 8% of the vote. Labour recovered in 2015 and 2017, although UKIP received large shares, but in 2019 the Labour vote fell sharply again, with the Brexit Party receiving nearly 30% of the vote and reducing Stephanie Peacock's majority to just over 3000.
At local level Labour are usually dominant, but as elsewhere in Barnsley the Barnsley Independent Group (BIG) have won various wards from time to time, and in a poor 2019 election for Barnsley Labour, they were defeated in Stairfoot ward by BIG, in Worsbrough by a non-BIG independent and in Darfield by Democrats and Veterans, a UKIP splinter party, and having close shaves in a number of other wards. No Conservative has been elected in a local election here since the creation of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough.
This is very much a coalfield constituency, with all the communities in the constituency having mining connections, and it includes the birthplace of Arthur Scargill. Unsurprisingly it is a deprived working class constituency. All of the communities in the constituency have census areas with very high deprivation, and although they do mostly have some less deprived areas "less deprived" here is still usually more deprived than the English median. Overall Grimethorpe is the most deprived area, with Hoyland perhaps being a little bit better off than most of the rest of the constituency.
Numbers in professional or managerial employment are low, as are numbers with higher education qualifications, while numbers with no qualifications are very high, reaching close to 50% in a couple of census areas in Worsbrough and Grimethorpe. Again there are some areas which are closer to the median for these statistics, for example in Hemingfield, east of Hoyland, but there is nowhere where the demographics can really be described as middle class. There is very little ethnic diversity, with the constituency being 98% white in 2011.
The consituency was created in 1983, and at that point did not include Hoyland or Worsbrough; previously Darfield and Wombwell had been in Dearne Valley and Cudworth and Grimethorpe in Hemsworth. In 1997 it gained parts of Doncaster borough and was renamed Barnsley East & Mexborough, but it lost these again in 2010, and also lost Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Bolton on Dearne, which went to Wentworth & Dearne, but gained Hoyland and Worsbrough from the dismembered Barnsley West & Penistone.
Barnsley East and all its predecessors have been consistently represented by Labour MPs since 1935. In recent times Labour has had some trouble from the populist right. In 2010 the Labour vote fell sharply to below 50%, with the British National Party receiving over 8% of the vote. Labour recovered in 2015 and 2017, although UKIP received large shares, but in 2019 the Labour vote fell sharply again, with the Brexit Party receiving nearly 30% of the vote and reducing Stephanie Peacock's majority to just over 3000.
At local level Labour are usually dominant, but as elsewhere in Barnsley the Barnsley Independent Group (BIG) have won various wards from time to time, and in a poor 2019 election for Barnsley Labour, they were defeated in Stairfoot ward by BIG, in Worsbrough by a non-BIG independent and in Darfield by Democrats and Veterans, a UKIP splinter party, and having close shaves in a number of other wards. No Conservative has been elected in a local election here since the creation of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough.