Sheffield Hallam is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Olivia Blake of the Labour Party.
The City of Sheffield is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire,England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield,the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District. It has a population of 566,242 (2022),making it technically the third largest city in England by population behind Birmingham and Leeds,since London is not considered a single entity. It is governed by Sheffield City Council.
Sheffield Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Abtisam Mohamed,a member of the Labour Party.
The ceremonial county of South Yorkshire is divided into 14 parliamentary constituencies –5 borough constituencies and 9 county constituencies,one of which is partly in the District of North Lincolnshire.
Sheffield,Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2016 by Gill Furniss,a member of the Labour Party.
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 2003,reducing the number of seats by 3. This election was the first all-postal vote election held,dramatically improving overall turnout by 14.4% on the previous election to 43.9%. The Labour Party kept its overall majority and continued to run the council,albeit on a much slimmer majority. Previous to the boundary changes,sitting Hillsborough councillor Peter MacLoughlin defected from the Liberal Democrats to an Independent,choosing not to contest this election.
"People's Republic of South Yorkshire" or "Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire" were nicknames often given to South Yorkshire under the left-wing local governments of the 1980s,especially the municipal socialist administration of Sheffield City Council led by David Blunkett,used by both detractors and supporters of the councils. The councils pursued a social policy radically different from that of Margaret Thatcher's national government,following more closely along the lines of Militant tendency-dominated Liverpool City Council and the Greater London Council led by Ken Livingstone.
Paul James Scriven,Baron Scriven of Hunters Bar in the City of Sheffield,is a Liberal Democrat politician and life peer. Leader of Sheffield City Council from 2008 to 2011,he was once described as Nick Clegg's "closest ally in local government". Scriven has been a member of the House of Lords since 2014.
Rebecca Elizabeth Taylor is a British health researcher and Liberal Democrat politician,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2012 to 2014.
The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 22 May 2014,coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total,73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England,Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR,while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).
The Yorkshire Party is a regionalist political party in Yorkshire,a historic county of England. The party,which was founded in 2014,campaigns for the establishment of a devolved Yorkshire Parliament within the United Kingdom,with powers over education,environment,transportation and housing.
The 2015 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 27 August 2015 upon the advice of the prime minister,David Cameron. The Life Peerages were announced separately from the other appointments,while it was gazetted as a single list on 22 September 2015.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020;it was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018,and was the first European election in the United Kingdom since 1999 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. This was the first of two national elections held in the United Kingdom in 2019;the 2019 general election occurred six-and-a-half months later in December 2019.
On 5 May 2016,a by-election was held in the UK Parliamentary constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in South Yorkshire. It was caused by the death of the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Harpham on 4 February 2016. Harpham had been the Labour Party MP for the seat since the 2015 general election. The by-election took place on the same day as local elections in the United Kingdom.
Sheffield City Council elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2016,alongside nationwide local elections. All 84 seats were up for election,3 per ward,after several electoral boundaries were changed. Labour,the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party contested all 84 seats. The Conservatives fielded 55 candidates,UKIP 43,TUSC 23 and Yorkshire First 1. There was also 1 independent candidate. Voters in the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Parliamentary constituency also elected Gill Furniss MP,in a by-election triggered by the death of her husband Harry Harpham MP.
Gillian Furniss is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough since 2016. She was a Member of Sheffield City Council from 1999 to 2016.
The 2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held following the announcement of the resignation of Vince Cable as leader on 24 May 2019,after just under two years as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. The two candidates to succeed Cable were Ed Davey and Jo Swinson.
Luisa Manon Porritt is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
The 2020 Liberal Democrats leadership election was held in August 2020,after Jo Swinson,the previous leader of the Liberal Democrats,lost her seat in the 2019 general election. It was initially set to be held in July 2020,but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed by six weeks,having been at first postponed until May 2021.
