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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Barnsley North (UK Parliament Constituency)

Barnsley North is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and won by Dan Jarvis of the Labour Party.

Boundaries

The constituency comprises the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

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
Notional results from 2019
Party Vote %
Labour 15,684 42.12
Brexit Party 10,964 29.45
Conservative 8,497 22.82
Liberal Democrat 1,311 3.52
Green Party 773 2.00

For more information see Notional results of the 2019 United Kingdom general election by 2024 constituency.

Members of Parliament

Barnsley Central prior to 2024

Election Member Party
2024 Dan Jarvis Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Barnsley North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Dan Jarvis 18,610 50.4 +11.9
Reform UK Robert Lomas 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
Independent Neil Fisher 616 1.7 +1.7
Yorkshire Tony Devoy 603 1.6
English Democrat Janus Polenceusz 42 0.1 +0.1
Majority 7,811 21.1
Turnout 37,026 47.3
Registered electors 78,274
Labour win (new seat)

See also