Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Barnsley East is a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire which returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat was created as Barnsley East in 1983 and abolished to create Barnsley East and Mexborough in 1997. It was recreated as Barnsley East at the 2010 general election. Both between 1983 and 1997, and at the 2010 general election, this constituency has been a safe seat for the Labour Party.