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Rother Valley is a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire named after the River Rother. It is considered a safe Labour seat and has been represented by Kevin Barron since the 1983 UK general election. A borough constituency is, in the United Kingdom, a Parliamentary constituency that is predominantly urban and thus designated to be a borough constituency. ... South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. ... The River Rother is a river in the northern midlands of England, after which the town of Rotherham and the Rother Valley constituency are named. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Right Honourable Kevin John Barron (born 29 October 1946) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Rother Valley. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ...

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1 Boundaries

2 Members of Parliament

3 Election Results

4 Politics and history of the constituency

Boundaries

Rother Valley constituency covers an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham south of Rotherham itself. Rotherham is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. ... Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England, built upon the River Don near the confluence of the Don and the Rother. ...

Members of Parliament

D Griffiths, Labour (1945– )
Peter Hardy, Labour ( –1983)
Kevin Barron, Labour (1983– )

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The Right Honourable Kevin John Barron (born 29 October 1946) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Rother Valley. ...

Election Results

General Election 2005: Rother Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Barron	21,871	55.4	-6.7
	Conservative	Colin Phillips	7,647	19.4	-2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Bristow	6,272	15.9	+3.4
	BNP	Nick Cass	2,020	5.1	N/A
	UKIP	Gordon Brown	1,685	4.3	+0.6
Majority			14,224	36.0
Turnout			39,495	58.1	+4.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.2

General Election 2001: Rother Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Barron	22,851	62.1	-5.5
	Conservative	Duddridge, J.P.	7,969	21.7	+5.0
	Liberal Democrats	Knight, W.I.	4,603	12.5	+0.9
	UKIP	Cutts, D.	1,380	3.7
Majority			14,882	40.4
Turnout			36,803	53.2

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The British National Party (BNP) is the largest political party of the far-right in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Right Honourable Kevin John Barron (born 29 October 1946) is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Rother Valley. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ...

Politics and history of the constituency

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Results from FactBites:

Rother Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Biography on DanceAge (196 words)
	Rother Valley constituency covers an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham south of Rotherham itself.
	It is neighboured by the constituencies of Bassetlaw, Bolsover, Don Valley, North East Derbyshire, Rotherham, Sheffield Attercliffe and Wentworth.
	Anston and Woodsetts, Dinnington, Hellaby, Holderness, Maltby, Rother Vale, Sitwell, and Wales, all from the borough of Rotherham

Rotherham (UK Parliament constituency) at AllExperts (215 words)
	Rotherham constituency is one of three borough constituencies in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham.
	It borders the constituencies of Rother Valley, Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Hillsborough, and Wentworth.
	In the Rotherham by-election, 1892 and the 1895 UK general election, Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland was elected unopposed.

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