Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Sheffield South East
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)
Boundaries since 2024
Yorkshire and the Humber - Sheffield South East constituency.svg
Boundary of Sheffield South East in Yorkshire and the Humber
County South Yorkshire
Electorate 67,031 (December 2019) [1]
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament Clive Betts (Labour)
Created from Sheffield Attercliffe

Sheffield South East is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Clive Betts, a member of the Labour Party. [n 2]

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History

This seat succeeded Sheffield Attercliffe (represented by the Labour MP Clive Betts since 1992) following a minor change [n 3] recommended by the Boundary Commission for England for the 2010 general election and accepted by Parliament.

History of predecessor

The predecessor, Sheffield Attercliffe, was a Labour seat from 1935 since which date candidates of the party had received substantial majorities.

Boundaries

Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of 2010–2024 boundaries

2010–2024: The City of Sheffield wards of: Beighton; Birley; Darnall; Mosborough; and Woodhouse.

2024–present: The City of Sheffield wards of: Beighton; Birley; Darnall; Mosborough; Richmond (polling districts UA, UD, UF, UG and UH); Woodhouse. [2]

2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies described changes the constituency as following: In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, parts of the Richmond ward will be transferred from Sheffield Heeley.

Constituency profile

Labour majorities from 1935 until 2019 were substantial, making it one of the party's safe seats. In 2010, the closest runner-up was the Liberal Democrat candidate. In 2015, UKIP came second, with nearly 22% of the vote, beating both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats (the Liberal Democrat vote declining by 18%). In 2019, a collapse in the Labour vote reduced the party's majority to a little over 4,000 votes, making it a marginal seat between them and the Conservative Party.

In statistics

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of local government districts with a working population whose income is close to or slightly below the national average, and close to average reliance upon social housing. [3] At the end of 2012, the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 4.4% of the population claiming jobseekers' allowance (see table). [4]

Sheffield's Seats Compared - unemployment [4]
Office for National Statistics November 2012Jobseekers Claimant Count
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough 7.6% [n 4]
Sheffield Central 4.0%
Sheffield Hallam 1.5%
Sheffield Heeley 5.7%
Sheffield South East4.4%

The district contributing to the seat has a medium 33% of its population without a car. [n 5] 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. [5]

Members of Parliament

Sheffield Attercliffe prior to 2010

ElectionMember [6] Party
2010 Clive Betts Labour

Elections

Sheffield Attercliffe election results AttercliffeGraph.png
Sheffield Attercliffe election results

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Sheffield South East [7] [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clive Betts 18,710 52.3 +5.6
Conservative Caroline Kampila6,25217.5−18.1
Liberal Democrats Sophie Thornton3,4219.6+4.9
Green Hannah Nicklin3,1588.8+8.6
Independent Jack Carrington1,7164.8N/A
Workers Party Muzafar Rahman1,4534.1N/A
SDP Matthew Leese1,0613.0N/A
Majority12,45835.8+24.7
Turnout 35,77148.2−13.3
Registered electors 74,194
Labour hold Swing +11.9

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [9]
PartyVote %
Labour 21,92346.7
Conservative 16,70935.6
Brexit Party 5,03210.7
Liberal Democrats 2,1864.7
Others9662.1
Green 800.2
Turnout46,89661.5
Electorate76,223
General election 2019: Sheffield South East [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clive Betts 19,359 46.1 −12.4
Conservative Marc Bayliss15,07035.9+4.4
Brexit Party Kirk Kus4,47810.7N/A
Liberal Democrats Rajin Chowdhury2,1255.1+1.8
Yorkshire Alex Martin9662.3N/A
Majority4,28910.2−16.8
Turnout 41,99861.9−1.5
Labour hold Swing -8.4
General election 2017: Sheffield South East [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clive Betts 25,520 58.5 +7.1
Conservative Lindsey Cawrey13,72231.5+14.1
UKIP Dennise Dawson2,8206.5−15.4
Liberal Democrats Colin Ross1,4323.3−2.0
SDP Ishleen Oberoi1020.2N/A
Majority11,79827.0−2.5
Turnout 43,59663.4+4.2
Labour hold Swing -3.5
General election 2015: Sheffield South East [12] [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clive Betts 21,439 51.4 +2.7
UKIP Steven Winstone9,12821.9+17.3
Conservative Matt Sleat7,24217.40.0
Liberal Democrats Gail Smith2,2265.3−18.0
Green Linda Duckenfield1,1172.7N/A
CISTA Jen Battersby2070.5N/A
TUSC Ian Whitehouse1850.4N/A
English Democrat Matthew Roberts1410.3N/A
Majority12,31129.5+4.1
Turnout 41,68559.2−2.3
Labour hold Swing -7.3
General election 2010: Sheffield South East [14] [15] [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clive Betts 20,169 48.7 −11.6
Liberal Democrats Gail Smith9,66423.3+6.4
Conservative Nigel Bonson7,20217.4+3.0
BNP Chris Hartigan2,3455.7+1.6
UKIP Jonathan Arnott 1,8894.6+0.2
Communist Steve Andrew1390.3N/A
Majority10,50525.4−17.73
Turnout 41,40861.5+6.8
Labour hold Swing -9.0

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.
  3. The only change being the loss in 2010 of the shared part of the Richmond, South Yorkshire ward to the Sheffield Heeley constintuency.
  4. Brightside and Hillsborough also saw the widest gender disparity with 10.5% of men were claimants, vs. 4.8% of women
  5. This falls within the centrally coloured banding for metropolitan areas

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