Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
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Boundary of Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election.
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Location of South Yorkshire within England.
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| County | South Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 69,206 (December 2010) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of parliament | Harry Harpham (Labour) |
| Created from | Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Brightside |
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| European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Harry Harpham, 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.
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 New Labour Government. 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 & Hillsborough for 28 years, the longest of any MP for the seat. The constituency representative from 2015 is Harry Harpham.
Boundaries
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough was formed from electoral wards from entirely within the City of Sheffield, namely:
Constituency profile
The last instance of either of the two predecessor seats being held by an MP from a party other than the Labour Party was the period for both before the 1935 general election. Majorities since World War II have been substantial suggesting a safe seat on historic voting preferences.
- In statistics
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.[2] 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%.[3] 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.[4]
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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| 2010 | David Blunkett | Labour | |
| 2015 | Harry Harpham | Labour | |
Elections
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Harry Harpham | 22,663 | 56.6 | +1.6 | |
| UKIP | John Booker | 8,856 | 22.1 | +18.0 | |
| Conservative | Elise Dünweber | 4,407 | 11.0 | -0.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Harston | 1,802 | 4.5 | -15.5 | |
| Green | Christine Gilligan Kubo | 1,712 | 4.3 | +4.3 | |
| TUSC | Maxine Bowler | 442 | 1.1 | -0.6 | |
| English Democrats | Justin Saxton | 171 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 13,807 | 34.58 | -0.32 | ||
| Turnout | 40,053 | 54.8 | -2.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -8.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | David Blunkett* | 21,400 | 55.0 | -14.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Harston | 7,768 | 20.0 | +6.9 | |
| Conservative | John Sharp | 4,468 | 11.5 | +1.7 | |
| BNP | John Sheldon[10] | 3,026 | 7.8 | +3.2 | |
| UKIP | Patricia Sullivan | 1,596 | 4.1 | +1.1 | |
| TUSC | Maxine Bowler | 656 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
| Majority | 13,632 | 35.0 | |||
| Turnout | 38,594 | 57.1 | +7.1 | ||
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
Notes and references
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- ↑ 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
- ↑ 2001 Census
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ 2011 census interactive maps
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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