Sheffield Central | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | South Yorkshire |
Electorate | 79,414 (December 2019) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Abtisam Mohamed |
Seats | One |
Created from | Sheffield Park, Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield Attercliffe [2] |
1885–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Sheffield |
Replaced by | Sheffield Neepsend and Sheffield Hallam |
Sheffield Central is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Abtisam Mohamed, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]
1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Sheffield wards of St Peter's and St Philip's, and part of St George's ward.
1918–1950: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of St Peter's and St Philip's, and part of Broomhall ward.
1950-1983: See other seats.
1983–1997: The City of Sheffield wards of Burngreave, Castle, Manor, Netherthorpe, and Sharrow.
1997–2010: as above plus Nether Edge
Sheffield City Council was subject to new ward boundaries from 2004, which removed Castle, Manor, Netherthorpe and Sharrow, whilst adding Central and Manor Castle wards.
2010–2016: The City of Sheffield wards of Broomhill, Central, Manor Castle, Nether Edge, and Walkley (as they existed on 12 April 2005).
2016–2024: Following a local government boundary review, [3] which did not effect the parliamentary boundaries, the contents of the constituency were as follows with effect from May 2016:
2024–present: Further to the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency comprises:
The Manor Castle ward was transferred to Sheffield Heeley, bringing the electorate within the permitted range. Other minor losses to align with new ward boundaries.
The seat covers central Sheffield and extends as far as Nether Edge and the Lower Walkley. It covers a similar area to the former Sheffield Park seat. It borders Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield Heeley, Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough and Sheffield South East.
Created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the election that year, Sheffield Central was one of five divisions of the former Sheffield constituency. Sheffield Central was abolished in 1950 and the sitting MP, Harry Morris, stood and won in the new seat (now extinct) of Sheffield Neepsend.
In varied form the constituency was brought back into existence for the 1983 general election.
Labour's Richard Caborn represented Sheffield Central from its recreation in 1983 until he retired in 2010 and was narrowly succeeded at the ballot box by another Labour MP, Paul Blomfield. Blomfield retired for the 2024 general election, with the Labour Party selecting Sheffield city councillor Abtisam Mohamed to fight the seat, beating Eddie Izzard in the selection contest. [5] [6] Mohamed was duly elected with a much reduced, but still comfortable majority.
The 2015 result made the seat the 32nd-safest of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [7]
Labour majorities since 1983 in Sheffield Central have been in the top quartile save for 2010, when the Liberal Democrat share of the vote came 0.4% short of winning the seat — a highly marginal result.
The Green Party took second place in 2015, gaining a +12.1% swing (compared with +2.8% nationwide). This was the main target seat of the party in Yorkshire. Its 2012-2016 Leader Natalie Bennett, chose to settle locally on stepping down from the policy-steering role in 2016 and had chosen to contest Sheffield Central at the 2017 general election, when its vote share halved and they fell back to third place. The Green candidate at the 2024 general election regained second place with 26% of the vote. Lib Dem candidates scored variable second places in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010 then took fourth place in 2015.
Turnout has ranged from 62.5% in 1987 to 49.5% in 2001.
The constituency has a working population whose income is close to the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing. [8] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 4.0% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, see table. [9]
There is a large student population and in 2015, the constituency had the youngest median age of voters at 26 years, compared to 39 years for the UK. [10]
Office for National Statistics November 2012 | Jobseeker's Allowance claimant count |
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Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | 7.6% [n 3] |
Sheffield Central | 4.0% |
Sheffield Hallam | 1.5% |
Sheffield Heeley | 5.7% |
Sheffield South East | 4.4% |
The district contributing to the bulk of the seat has a medium 33% of its population without a car. [n 4] A medium 24.3% of the city's population are without qualifications, a high 15.8% of the population with level 3 qualifications and a medium 25.7% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure a relatively low 58.3% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage by occupants as at the 2011 census across the district. [11]
Year | Member [12] | Party | |
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1885 | Howard Vincent | Conservative | |
1908 | James Hope | Conservative | |
1929 | Philip Hoffman | Labour | |
1931 | William Boulton | Conservative | |
1945 | Harry Morris | Labour | |
1950 | Constituency abolished |
Year | Member [13] | Party | |
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1983 | Richard Caborn | Labour | |
2010 | Paul Blomfield | Labour | |
2024 | Abtisam Mohamed | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Abtisam Mohamed | 16,569 | 52.1 | −14.9 | |
Green | Angela Argenzio | 8,283 | 26.0 | +15.1 | |
Conservative | Lucy Stephenson | 2,339 | 7.4 | −5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sam Christmas | 2,174 | 6.8 | +1.4 | |
Independent | Alison Teal | 1,039 | 3.3 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Caitlin Hardy | 656 | 2.1 | N/A | |
TUSC | Isabelle France | 409 | 1.3 | N/A | |
SDP | Annie Stoker | 334 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,286 | 26.1 | –28.5 | ||
Turnout | 31,803 | 52.3 | −1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 60,777 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −15.0 |
2019 notional result [16] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 25,495 | 67.0 | |
Conservative | 4,722 | 12.4 | |
Green | 4,136 | 10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2,070 | 5.4 | |
Brexit Party | 1,170 | 3.1 | |
Others | 474 | 1.3 | |
Turnout | 38,067 | 54.0 | |
Electorate | 70,453 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Blomfield | 33,968 | 66.7 | −4.2 | |
Conservative | Janice Silvester-Hall | 6,695 | 13.1 | +0.1 | |
Green | Alison Teal | 4,570 | 9.0 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Colin Ross | 3,237 | 6.4 | +1.3 | |
Brexit Party | Paul Ward | 1,969 | 3.9 | New | |
Yorkshire | Jack Carrington | 416 | 0.8 | +0.4 | |
Independent | Barry James | 30 | 0.1 | New | |
Socialist Equality | Chris Marsden | 28 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 27,273 | 53.6 | −4.3 | ||
Turnout | 50,913 | 56.7 | −5.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Blomfield | 33,963 | 70.9 | +15.9 | |
Conservative | Stephanie Roe | 6,215 | 13.0 | +1.9 | |
Green | Natalie Bennett | 3,848 | 8.0 | −7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shaffaq Mohammed | 2,465 | 5.1 | −4.6 | |
UKIP | Dominic Cook | 1,060 | 2.2 | −5.3 | |
Yorkshire | Jack Carrington | 197 | 0.4 | New | |
Pirate | Rob Moran | 91 | 0.2 | −0.1 | |
SDP | Joe Westnidge | 38 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 27,748 | 57.9 | +15.7 | ||
Turnout | 47,877 | 62.0 | +4.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Blomfield | 24,308 | 55.0 | +13.7 | |
Green | Jillian Creasy | 6,999 | 15.8 | +12.0 | |
Conservative | Stephanie Roe | 4,917 | 11.1 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joe Otten | 4,278 | 9.7 | −31.2 | |
UKIP | Dominic Cook | 3,296 | 7.5 | +5.9 | |
Communist | Steve Andrew | 119 | 0.3 | New | |
Pirate | Andy Halsall | 113 | 0.3 | New | |
English Democrat | Elizabeth Breed | 68 | 0.2 | New | |
Above and Beyond Party | Thom Brown | 42 | 0.1 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Driver | 33 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 17,309 | 39.2 | +38.8 | ||
Turnout | 44,173 | 57.4 | −2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Blomfield | 17,138 | 41.3 | −5.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Scriven | 16,973 | 40.9 | +9.5 | |
Conservative | Andrew Lee | 4,206 | 10.1 | +1.0 | |
Green | Jillian Creasy | 1,556 | 3.8 | −2.0 | |
BNP | Tracey Smith | 903 | 2.2 | +0.6 | |
UKIP | Jeffrey Shaw | 652 | 1.6 | −0.1 | |
Independent | Rod Rodgers | 40 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 165 | 0.4 | −23.1 | ||
Turnout | 41,468 | 59.6 | +4.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 14,950 | 49.9 | −11.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ali Qadar | 7,895 | 26.3 | +6.6 | |
Conservative | Samantha George | 3,094 | 10.3 | −0.6 | |
Green | Bernard Little | 1,808 | 6.0 | +2.6 | |
Respect | Maxine Bowler | 1,284 | 4.3 | New | |
BNP | Mark Payne | 539 | 1.8 | New | |
UKIP | Charlotte Arnott | 415 | 1.4 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,055 | 23.6 | −18.1 | ||
Turnout | 29,985 | 50.1 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -9.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 18,477 | 61.4 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ali Qadar | 5,933 | 19.7 | +2.5 | |
Conservative | Noelle Brelsford | 3,289 | 10.9 | −1.0 | |
Green | Bernard Little | 1,008 | 3.4 | +0.8 | |
Socialist Alliance | Nick Riley | 754 | 2.5 | New | |
Socialist Labour | David Hadfield | 289 | 1.0 | New | |
UKIP | Elizabeth Schofield | 257 | 0.9 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Robert Driver | 62 | 0.2 | −0.0 | |
Majority | 12,544 | 41.7 | −4.7 | ||
Turnout | 30,069 | 49.5 | −3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.36 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 23,179 | 63.6 | −5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ali Qadar | 6,273 | 17.2 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Martin Hess | 4,341 | 11.9 | −4.6 | |
Green | Andy D'Agorne | 954 | 2.6 | +0.3 | |
Referendum | Anthony Brownlow | 863 | 2.4 | New | |
Socialist Alternative | Ken Douglas | 466 | 1.3 | New | |
ProLife Alliance | Maureen Aitken | 280 | 0.8 | New | |
Workers Revolutionary | Michael Driver | 63 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 16,906 | 46.4 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 36,419 | 53.0 | −3.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 22,764 | 68.7 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Vernon Davies | 5,470 | 16.5 | −0.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Sangar | 3,856 | 11.6 | −2.3 | |
Green | Graham Wroe | 750 | 2.3 | New | |
End Unemployment Vote Justice for Jobless | Martin Clarke | 212 | 0.6 | New | |
Communist League | Josephine O'Brien | 92 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 17,294 | 52.2 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,144 | 56.1 | −5.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 25,872 | 67.7 | +7.5 | |
Conservative | Brian Oxley | 6,530 | 17.1 | −2.1 | |
SDP | Fiona Hornby | 5,314 | 13.9 | −5.5 | |
Red Front | Ceri T. Dingle | 278 | 0.7 | New | |
Communist | Keith Petts | 203 | 0.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 19,342 | 50.6 | +9.8 | ||
Turnout | 38,197 | 62.5 | +0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Richard Caborn | 24,759 | 60.2 | ||
SDP | Patricia Major | 7,969 | 19.4 | ||
Conservative | Patricia Rawlings | 7,908 | 19.2 | ||
Communist | Vi Gill | 296 | 0.7 | ||
Revolutionary Communist | C. Barrett | 222 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 16,790 | 40.8 | |||
Turnout | 41,154 | 61.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Howard Vincent | 4,633 | 56.1 | ||
Lib-Lab | Samuel Plimsoll | 3,484 | 42.2 | ||
Independent Liberal | Mervyn Lanark Hawkes [35] | 140 | 1.7 | ||
Majority | 1,149 | 13.9 | |||
Turnout | 8,257 | 83.2 | |||
Registered electors | 9,923 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Howard Vincent | 4,522 | 57.6 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | Joshua Hawkins | 3,326 | 42.4 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 1,196 | 15.2 | +1.3 | ||
Turnout | 7,848 | 79.1 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 9,923 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Howard Vincent | 4,474 | 55.3 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | Robert Cameron | 3,618 | 44.7 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 856 | 10.6 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 8,092 | 83.2 | +4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 9,728 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Howard Vincent | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Howard Vincent | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Howard Vincent | 4,217 | 56.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | Stanley Udale | 3,290 | 43.8 | New | |
Majority | 927 | 12.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,507 | 82.1 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,142 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Hope | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Hope | 3,829 | 52.7 | −3.5 | |
Lib-Lab | Alfred James Bailey | 3,440 | 47.3 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 389 | 5.4 | −7.0 | ||
Turnout | 7,269 | 83.7 | +1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 8,684 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Hope | 3,455 | 51.4 | −1.3 | |
Lib-Lab | Alfred James Bailey | 3,271 | 48.6 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 184 | 2.8 | −2.6 | ||
Turnout | 6,726 | 77.5 | −6.2 | ||
Registered electors | 8,684 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | James Hope | 9,361 | 58.7 | +7.3 |
Independent Labour | Alfred James Bailey | 5,959 | 37.3 | −11.3 | |
British Socialist Party | Robert George Murray | 643 | 4.0 | New | |
Majority | 3,402 | 21.4 | +18.6 | ||
Turnout | 15,963 | 43.1 | −34.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +9.3 | |||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Bailey was sponsored by the National Amalgamated Union of Labour
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Hope | Unopposed | |||
Unionist hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Hope | 9,727 | 45.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Tom Snowden | 8,762 | 41.1 | New | |
Liberal | John Henry Freeborough | 2,810 | 13.2 | New | |
Majority | 965 | 4.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,299 | 61.3 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Hope | 13,302 | 50.6 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Tom Snowden | 12,995 | 49.4 | +8.3 | |
Majority | 307 | 1.2 | −3.4 | ||
Turnout | 26,297 | 74.5 | +13.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Philip Hoffman | 19,183 | 59.1 | +8.5 | |
Unionist | John Ralph Patientins Warde-Aldam | 13,284 | 40.9 | −8.5 | |
Majority | 5,899 | 18.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,467 | 74.1 | −0.4 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +8.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Boulton | 21,589 | 62.0 | +12.1 | |
Labour | Philip Hoffman | 13,212 | 38.0 | −12.1 | |
Majority | 8,377 | 24.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 34,801 | 80.2 | +6.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +12.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Boulton | 13,828 | 50.8 | −11.2 | |
Labour | Philip Hoffman | 13,408 | 49.2 | +11.2 | |
Majority | 420 | 1.6 | −22.4 | ||
Turnout | 27,229 | 74.2 | −6.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −11.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Morris | 7,954 | 59.2 | +10.0 | |
Conservative | George Vivian Hunt | 5,481 | 40.8 | −10.0 | |
Majority | 2,473 | 18.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 13,435 | 72.0 | −2.2 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.0 |
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