Yorkshire and The Humber · England · 75,853Boundary · 2023

Barnsley South

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Created in the 2023 boundary review, from parts of Barnsley Central and Barnsley East.

Dispatch
Apr 2026

Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Barnsley, Hoyland and Wombwell. Population 118,778. Median income £25K (below average).

Stephanie Peacock has been most visible recently through her ministerial role in sport and culture, securing a £45 million expansion deal to keep the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre -- a significant economic and cultural win for the Yorkshire region. She also championed a breakthrough insurance scheme for female sports stars through her leadership of the Women's Football Taskforce. On the assisted dying bill in June 2025, she broke from her party on the key Third Reading vote and opposed the legislation passing to the Lords, while supporting amendments aimed at closing a loophole around voluntary self-starvation as an eligibility route -- a consistent position placing her among the more cautious voices on safeguards even within the bill's opponents.

Her parliamentary record shows a 70% voting participation rate, somewhat below the Commons average, and a 96.5% party-line alignment -- a reliable government supporter in most areas. Her strongest deviations from Labour's average are on armed forces welfare (voting pro-forces 100% versus the party's 49%) and parliamentary scrutiny (50% versus the party's 8%), suggesting an independent streak on accountability issues. With 602 contributions across 109 debates, culture, economy and local government dominate her speech activity, consistent with her ministerial brief.

342
Commons votes
This parliament
£25k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
75.9k
Electorate
2024 GE

A new constituency created in the 2023 boundary review.

Current Member of Parliament

Stephanie Peacock

Stephanie Peacock

Labour Party

Stephanie Peacock is the Labour MP for Barnsley South, and has been an MP continually since 8 June 2017. She currently holds the Government post of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport).

Notable Votes

Vote on whether to add a provision to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ensuring that if an independent doctor dies or becomes too ill to complete their assessment before signing off on an assisted dying request, a further referral can be made to another doctor — mirroring an existing provision in the Bill for the attending doctor.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

Vote on an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that would prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under the Bill solely because they have voluntarily stopped eating and drinking. This matters because without the amendment, a person could potentially use voluntary starvation to meet the terminal illness threshold and access an assisted death.

MP voted NoAgainst party majority

Vote on whether to prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under the assisted dying bill solely because they have voluntarily stopped eating and drinking. The amendment aimed to close a potential loophole where a person might use self-starvation to meet the terminal illness criteria they would not otherwise meet.

MP voted NoAgainst party majority

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Voting at a Glance

Won by Lab in its first election in 2024. Covers Barnsley, Hoyland and Wombwell. Population 118,778. Median income £25K (below average).

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Peacock’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.350 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Peacock has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
68
Economy
65
Employment
51
Crime & Policing
34
Welfare and Benefits
26
Education
25
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 1220 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 7720 Jun 2025 · free vote
No
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 9420 Jun 2025 · free vote
No
§ 08The local picture.9 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
DarfieldKevin John Howard Osborne1,012Labour P
Dearne NorthWendy Ann Cain1,025Labour P
Dearne SouthDeborah Jane Pearson1,060Labour P
Hoyland MiltonMick Stowe1,092Labour P
KingstoneSteve Bullcock791Liberal
RockinghamSherry Holling884Labour P
StairfootKaren Dyson955Labour P
WombwellJames Lewis Higginbottom1,370Labour P
WorsbroughRoy Bowser996Labour P
Population (2021 Census)
118,778
Electorate 75,853 · 2024 register
Median income
£24,900
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
21.2%
England average 20.0%
Schools
40
34 primary · 5 secondary
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