Penistone and Stocksbridge
County constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundaries since 2010
Boundary of Penistone and Stocksbridge in Yorkshire and the Humber
County	South Yorkshire
Electorate	70,311 (December 2019)[1]
Major settlements	Stocksbridge,Penistone,Chapeltown
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Marie Tidball
Seats	One
Created from	Sheffield Hillsborough (part) (still extant) Barnsley West and Penistone (part)

Penistone and Stocksbridge is aconstituency^{[n 1]} inSouth Yorkshire represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since2024 byMarie Tidball, aLabour MP. As with all Westminster constituencies, adults qualifying to vote in the seat elect oneMember of Parliament (MP) by thefirst past the post system at least every five years.

2010–present: TheMetropolitan Borough of Barnsley wards ofDodworth,Penistone East, and Penistone West, and theCity of Sheffield wards ofStocksbridge and Upper Don,East Ecclesfield andWest Ecclesfield.

The2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies left the boundaries unchanged.^[2]

The seat largely resembles theold Penistone constituency, which, following the election of aConservative inthe Conservative landslide in 1931, returned MPs representing theLabour Party through to its abolition in 1983.

In 1983, two new constituencies were formed,Sheffield Hillsborough andBarnsley West and Penistone, both of which returned Labour MPs at every election they were fought.

The 2010 result was that of amarginal Labour majority. In 2015, the Labour majority increased, partly due to a split right-wing vote between the Conservatives andUKIP, while theLiberal Democrats' vote decline largely benefited Labour in the seat.

When the UKIP vote declined in 2017, with a large number of those voters going to the Conservatives causing a swing of almost 6% against Labour, the seat became extremely marginal.

Elected as a member of the Labour Party, MPAngela Smith quit the party in February 2019 and joinedChange UK. She left this party in June 2019 and joinedThe Independents. She departed the parliamentary group in September 2019 and joined the Liberal Democrats. Smith chose not to defend her seat at the 2019 election; she instead contestedAltrincham and Sale West for the Liberal Democrats, failing to gain the seat. At that election, Penistone and Stocksbridge was one of three seats gained by the Conservatives in South Yorkshire, the party's first seats there since before the1997 general election. This was reversed at the2024 general election when Labour regained this seat on a substantial swing and once again held all the South Yorkshire parliamentary constituencies.

The seat is most heavily populated on its eastern fringe, with communities built largely on the coal and steel industries, such as the ex-mining village of Dodworth and the steelworking town ofStocksbridge.Penistone too has a history of steelworking at the David Brown and high-tech foundries, although many local people are or have been employed at the Hepworth pipeworks (formerly Hepworth Iron Co./Hepworth Building Products) which specialises in the manufacture of pipes, mains and domestic, and whose fortunes vary with demand in construction. To the south lie the densely populated northern Sheffield suburbs ofChapeltown with its rich industrial history,Ecclesfield,Grenoside andHigh Green. Between these urban areas are rural villages includingOxspring,Wortley,Green Moor andThurgoland occupied mostly by commuters to Sheffield (as well as those for Leeds and Manchester). The western area of the constituency is in thePeak District National Park.

The seat contains three significant stately homes:Cannon Hall (home of theSpencer-Stanhope family of Pre-Raphaelites) is open to the public as the13th/18th Royal Hussars Museum, whileWortley Hall (ancestral home of the Wortley-Montagu family) is largely used bytrade unions and their families; the third isWentworth Castle, where an adult educational establishment,Northern College, is based.^{[n 2]}

Barnsley West & Penistone andSheffield Hillsborough prior to 2010

General election 2019: Penistone and Stocksbridge^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Miriam Cates	23,688	47.8	+4.6
	Labour	Francyne Johnson	16,478	33.3	–12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Kitching	5,054	10.2	+6.1
	Brexit Party	John Booker	4,300	8.7	N/A
Majority			7,210	14.5	N/A
Turnout			49,520	69.8
	Conservativegain fromLabour		Swing	+8.6

*Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

• List of parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire
• List of parliamentary constituencies in the Yorkshire and the Humber (region)

• Sheffield Recommendations of the Boundary Commission for England.
• Summary of theSheffield Parliamentary Boundary Review.

• Penistone and Stocksbridge UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• Penistone and Stocksbridge UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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• Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010
• Politics of Penistone
• Stocksbridge
• Politics of Barnsley

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