History
At the February 1974 general election, Hemsworth was the safest seat for any party, anywhere in the UK: the Labour vote peaked in 1966 at 85.39%, and consistently exceeded 80% from 1935 until the Liberal Party contested the seat in October 1974, for the first time since 1923. Successive boundary changes (the removal of a large number of mining communities to the new Barnsley East constituency in 1983 and the addition of the most middle class part of Wakefield in 1997) have reduced Labour's dominance, but the constituency remains a stronghold.
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