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Template:UK constituency infobox Hemsworth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat has consistently elected Labour MPs with large majorities, and in the February 1974 general election was the safest seat for any party, anywhere in the UK.

This constituency covers the town of Hemsworth in West Yorkshire.

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1918	John Guest	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1931	Gabriel Price	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1934	George Griffiths	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1946	Horace Holmes	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1959	Alan Beaney	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1974	Alec Woodall	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1987	George Buckley	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1991	Derek Enright	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1996	Jon Trickett	Labour

General Election 2005: Hemsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Trickett	21,630	58.8	−6.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Mortimer	8,149	22.1	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Hall-Matthews	5,766	15.7	+4.4
	Veritas	John Burdon	1,247	3.4	N/A
Majority			13,481	36.6
Turnout			36,792	54.6	+2.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Hemsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jon Trickett	23,036	65.4	−5.2
	Conservative	Elizabeth Truss	7,400	21.0	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Waller	3,990	11.3	+2.5
	Socialist Labour	Paul Turek	801	2.3	N/A
Majority			15,636	44.4
Turnout			35,227	51.8	−16.1
	Labour hold		Swing

v t e Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54)
Labour (41)	Barnsley North Barnsley South Bradford South Bradford West Calder Valley Colne Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme Doncaster North Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes Halifax Huddersfield Kingston upon Hull East Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice Leeds Central and Headingley Leeds North East Leeds North West Leeds South Leeds South West and Morley Leeds West and Pudsey Normanton and Hemsworth Ossett and Denby Dale Penistone and Stocksbridge Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Rawmarsh and Conisbrough Rother Valley Rotherham Scarborough and Whitby Scunthorpe Selby Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Hallam Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Shipley Spen Valley Wakefield and Rothwell York Central York Outer
Conservative (9)	Beverley and Holderness Bridlington and The Wolds Brigg and Immingham Goole and Pocklington Keighley and Ilkley Richmond and Northallerton Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton Wetherby and Easingwold
Independent (3)	Bradford East Dewsbury and Batley Leeds East
Liberal Democrats (1)	Harrogate and Knaresborough

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