For a 22-year period spanning 1997–2019, the Conservatives had no seats in South Yorkshire, until the 2019 election, when they gained three.
However, it was not until 2017 that every seat in South Yorkshire was won by Labour, a feat which was not repeated at the subsequent 2019 election.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine South Yorkshire with the four unitary authorities which make up the former county of Humberside as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, largely replacing Don Valley.
Changes to Wentworth and Dearne resulted in it being renamed Rawmarsh and Conisbrough.
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5] The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising South Yorkshire in the 2024 general election were as follows: 11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance * Included in Other 11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.