Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Boundaries since 2024
Yorkshire and the Humber - Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency.svg
Boundary of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in Yorkshire and the Humber
County South Yorkshire
Electorate 67,888 (December 2019) [1]
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament Gill Furniss (Labour)
SeatsOne
Created from Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Brightside

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2016 by Gill Furniss, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]

Contents

History

Following its review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire the Boundary Commission for England recommended substantial changes to the constituency boundaries in Sheffield, to add part of the Sheffield Hillsborough to the whole of the Sheffield Brightside constituency (other than a handful of houses in the corner of Walkley). The rest of the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency formed the southern half of the new Penistone and Stocksbridge seat.

Since its creation, the seat has elected members of the Labour Party; the last instance of either of the two predecessor seats being held by an MP from a party other than Labour was, for both, the period prior to the 1935 general election. Majorities since World War II have been substantial suggesting a safe seat on historic voting preferences.

The constituency's representative from 2010 to 2015 was David Blunkett, who also represented the predecessor Sheffield Brightside constituency since 1987. Blunkett was a former frontbench senior minister who was a Secretary of State from 1997 until 2005 in the Blair ministry. He served the first four years of government as the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, three years as the Home Secretary and six months as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Blunkett retired from Parliament at the 2015 general election after representing Brightside/Brightside and Hillsborough for 28 years, the longest of any MP for the seat. The constituency representative from 2015 was Harry Harpham until he died on 4 February 2016. He was succeeded by his widow, Gill Furniss, who won a by-election on 5 May 2016.

Boundaries

The City of Sheffield wards of Burngreave, Firth Park, Hillsborough, Shiregreen and Brightside, and Southey.

From the 2024 election minor amendments were made to reflect modifications to ward boundaries. [2]

Constituency profile

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of a local government districts with: a working population whose income is close to and fractionally below the national average and that has higher than average reliance on social housing. [3] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency was the highest of Sheffield's five constituencies at 7.6% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.7%. [4] The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat has a reasonably high 33% of its population without a car, has 24.3% of the population without qualifications and 25.7% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure a lower than average share, 58.3% of homes, are owned outright or on a mortgage by occupants as at the 2011 census across the district. [5]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [6] Party
2010 David Blunkett Labour
2015 Harry Harpham
2016 by-election Gill Furniss

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough [7] [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gill Furniss 16,301 51.6 −5.0
Green Christine Kubo4,70114.9+11.9
Conservative Aaron Jacob4,06912.9−12.5
Independent Maxine Bowler2,5378.0N/A
Liberal Democrats Will Sapwell1,6945.4+1.5
Workers Party Mark Tyler1,4374.5N/A
SDP Jeremy Turner8732.8N/A
Majority 11,60036.7+5.5
Turnout 31,61244.9−11.8
Registered electors 70,453
Labour hold Swing −8.5

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [9]
PartyVote %
Labour 22,83856.6
Conservative 10,24725.4
Brexit Party 3,9169.7
Liberal Democrats 1,5703.9
Green 1,2103.0
Others5851.4
Turnout40,36656.7
Electorate71,154
General election 2019: Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gill Furniss 22,369 56.5 −10.8
Conservative Hannah Westropp10,09525.5+3.9
Brexit Party Johnny Johnson3,8559.7New
Liberal Democrats Stephen Porter1,5173.8+1.3
Green Christine Kubo1,1793.0+1.2
UKIP Shane Harper5851.5−4.8
Majority 12,27431.0−14.7
Turnout 39,60057.1−2.5
Labour hold Swing
General election 2017: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gill Furniss 28,193 67.3 +10.7
Conservative Michael Naughton9,05021.6+10.6
UKIP Shane Harper2,6456.3−15.8
Liberal Democrats Simon Clement-Jones1,0612.5−2.0
Green Christine Kubo7371.8−2.5
Workers Revolutionary Mike Driver1370.3New
SDP Muzafar Rahman470.1New
Majority 19,14345.7+11.2
Turnout 41,87059.6+4.8
Labour hold Swing +0.1
By-election 2016: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gill Furniss 14,087 62.5 +5.9
UKIP Steven Winstone4,49720.0−2.1
Liberal Democrats Shaffaq Mohammed 1,3856.1+1.6
Conservative Spencer Pitfield1,2675.6−5.4
Green Christine Kubo9384.2−0.1
Yorkshire First Stevie Manion3491.5New
Give Me Back Elmo Bobby Smith 580.2New
Majority 9,59042.5+8.0
Turnout 22,58133.2−21.6
Labour hold Swing
General election 2015: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Harry Harpham 22,663 56.6 +1.6
UKIP John Booker8,85622.1+18.0
Conservative Elise Dünweber4,40711.0−0.5
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Harston1,8024.5−15.5
Green Christine Kubo1,7124.3New
TUSC Maxine Bowler4421.1−0.6
English Democrat Justin Saxton1710.4New
Majority 13,80734.5−0.5
Turnout 40,05354.8−2.3
Labour hold Swing −8.2
General election 2010: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Blunkett* 21,400 55.0 −14.6
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Harston7,76820.0+6.9
Conservative John Sharp4,46811.5+1.7
BNP John Sheldon [16] 3,0267.8+3.2
UKIP Patricia Sullivan1,5964.1+1.1
TUSC Maxine Bowler6561.7New
Majority 13,63235.0−21.5
Turnout 38,91457.5+7.1
Labour win (new seat)
*Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

  1. ↑ "Constituency data: electorates – House of Commons Library". Parliament UK. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 9 Yorkshire and the Humber region.
  3. ↑ "Neighbourhood Statistics". 11 February 2003. Archived from the original on 11 February 2003.
  4. ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  5. ↑ "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
  7. ↑ "Parliamentary election results". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  8. ↑ "Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough results". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  9. ↑ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament . Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "Brightside and Hillsborough by-election result 2016". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  13. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "UK > England> Yorkshire & the Humber > Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough". Election 2010. BBC. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  16. ↑ "New BNP Candidate in Sheffield Calls for War Crimes Trial for David Blunkett". Archived from the original on 9 April 2010.

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