Penistone (UK Parliament constituency)

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Penistone County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Penistone was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Penistone in Yorkshire and surrounding countryside. It returned one Member of Parliament to House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

1 History
2 Boundaries
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 Sources

[edit] History

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency and partly in the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sydney Arnold	Liberal
	1921	William Gillis	Labour
	1922	William Mather Rutherford Pringle	Liberal
	1924	Rennie Smith	Labour
	1931	Clifford William Hudson Glossop	Conservative
	1935	Henry George McGhee	Labour
	1959	John Mendelson	Labour
	1978	Allen McKay	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Barnsley West and Penistone

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Allen McKay	28,010	49.1
	Conservative	I. Dobkin	18,309	32.1
	Liberal	D. Chadwick	10,772	18.9
Majority			9,701	17.0
Turnout				78.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Penistone by-election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Allen McKay	19,424	45.5
	Conservative	I. Dobkin	14,053	32.9
	Liberal	D. Chadwick	9,241	21.6
Majority			5,371	12.6
Turnout			42,718
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	27,146	54.2
	Conservative	G. C. W. Harris	12,011	24.0
	Liberal	D. Chadwick	10,900	21.8
Majority			15,135	30.2
Turnout				74.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	27,797	49.7
	Conservative	A. D. Wilkinson	14,084	25.2
	Liberal	D. Chadwick	13,140	23.5
	Campaign for Social Democracy	M. Eaden	867	1.6
Majority			13,713	24.5
Turnout				84.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	31,615	58.7
	Conservative	A. Pickup	14,897	27.7
	Liberal	D. Mirfin	7,347	13.6
Majority			16,718	31.0
Turnout				73.9
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	31,419	62.3
	Conservative	B. Askew	11,817	23.4
	Liberal	R. Swinden	7,191	14.3
Majority			19,602	38.9
Turnout				78.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	29,784	58.1
	Conservative	B. Askew	13,095	25.6
	Liberal	R. Swinden	8,372	16.3
Majority			16,689	32.6
Turnout				81.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	31,117	61.1
	Conservative	J. B. Deby	19,809	38.9
Majority			11,308	22.2
Turnout				83.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Penistone by-election, 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Jakob Mendelson	25,315	64.1	+1.8
	Conservative	J. B. Deby	14,196	35.9	−1.8
Majority			11,119	28.1	+3.4
Turnout			39,511
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.8

General Election 1955: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry George McGhee	29,432	62.3
	Conservative	L. B. Fulton	17,796	37.7
Majority			11,636	24.6
Turnout				80.0
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry George McGhee	36,169	64.2
	Conservative	D. Hinchcliffe	20,145	35.8
Majority			16,024	28.5
Turnout				85.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry George McGhee	34,979	62.0
	Conservative	D. Hinchcliffe	16,128	28.6
	Liberal	A. F. Smith	5,316	9.4
Majority			18,851	33.4
Turnout				87.7
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry George McGhee	40,180	65.8
	Conservative	R. G. Davies	20,869	34.2
Majority			19,311	31.6
Turnout				75.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Henry George McGhee	23,869	53.5
	Conservative	Clifford William Hudson Glossop	20,783	46.5
Majority			3,086	7.0
Turnout				73.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1931: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clifford William Hudson Glossop	19,556	47.7
	Labour	Rennie Smith	14,584	35.6
	Liberal	T. Neville	6,821	16.7
Majority			4,972	12.1
Turnout				81.9
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rennie Smith	17,286	45.2
	Conservative	F. G. Bibbings	10,640	27.9
	Liberal	A. Mitchell	10,277	26.9
Majority			6,646	17.3
Turnout			38,203	81.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rennie Smith	10,997	38.5
	Conservative	C. Hodgkinson	9,718	38.5
	Liberal	William Pringle	7,799	27.4
Majority			1,279	4.4
Turnout			28,514	80.6
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Pringle	9,164	36.9
	Labour	Rennie Smith	8,329	33.5
	Conservative	C. Hodgkinson	7,369	29.6
Majority			835	3.4
Turnout			24,862	71.8
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1922: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Pringle	8,924	35.8
	Labour	William Gillis	8,382	33.7
	Conservative	C. Hodgkinson	7,600	30.5
Majority			542	2.1
Turnout			24,906	73.1
	Liberal hold		Swing

Penistone by-election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Gillis	8,560	36.2
	Liberal	William Pringle	7,984	33.7
	Conservative	J. P. Hinchcliffe	7,123	30.1
Majority			576	2.5
Turnout			23,667	71.7
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Penistone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sydney Arnold	7,338	39.4
	Conservative	P. G. Smith	6,744	36.2
	Independent Labour	F. W. Southern	4,556	24.4
Majority			594	3.2
Turnout				58.4
	Liberal hold		Swing

[edit] Sources

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources (Election results since 1951)

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