Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°21′43″N 1°25′44″W / 53.362°N 1.429°W
Sheffield South East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Sheffield South East in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election | |
![]() Location of South Yorkshire within England | |
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]
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[]
The City of Sheffield wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, and Woodhouse.
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.[2] At the end of 2012, the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 4.4% of the population claiming jobseekers' allowance (see table).[3]
Sheffield's Seats Compared - worklessness[3] | |
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Office for National Statistics November 2012 | Jobseekers Claimant Count |
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | 7.6%[n 4] |
Sheffield Central | 4.0% |
Sheffield Hallam | 1.5% |
Sheffield Heeley | 5.7% |
Sheffield South East | 4.4% |
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.[4]
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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2010 | Clive Betts | Labour |
Elections[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/AttercliffeGraph.png/216px-AttercliffeGraph.png)
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clive Betts | 19,359 | 46.1 | -12.4 | |
Conservative | Marc Bayliss | 15,070 | 35.9 | +4.4 | |
Brexit Party | Kirk Kus | 4,478 | 10.7 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Rajin Chowdhury | 2,125 | 5.1 | +1.8 | |
Yorkshire | Alex Martin | 966 | 2.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,289 | 10.2 | -16.8 | ||
Turnout | 41,998 | 61.9 | -1.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -8.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clive Betts | 25,520 | 58.5 | +7.1 | |
Conservative | Lindsey Cawrey | 13,722 | 31.5 | +14.1 | |
UKIP | Dennise Dawson | 2,820 | 6.5 | -15.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Colin Ross | 1,432 | 3.3 | -2.0 | |
SDP | Ishleen Oberoi | 102 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,798 | 27.0 | -2.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,596 | 63.4 | +4.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clive Betts | 21,439 | 51.4 | +2.7 | |
UKIP | Steven Winstone | 9,128 | 21.9 | +17.3 | |
Conservative | Matt Sleat | 7,242 | 17.4 | 0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gail Smith | 2,226 | 5.3 | -18.0 | |
Green | Linda Duckenfield | 1,117 | 2.7 | New | |
CISTA | Jen Battersby | 207 | 0.5 | New | |
TUSC | Ian Whitehouse | 185 | 0.4 | New | |
English Democrat | Matthew Roberts | 141 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 12,311 | 29.5 | +4.1 | ||
Turnout | 41,685 | 59.2 | -2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clive Betts | 20,169 | 48.7 | -11.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gail Smith | 9,664 | 23.3 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Nigel Bonson | 7,202 | 17.4 | +3.0 | |
BNP | Chris Hartigan | 2,345 | 5.7 | +1.6 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Arnott | 1,889 | 4.6 | +0.2 | |
Communist | Steve Andrew | 139 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,505 | 25.4 | -17.73 | ||
Turnout | 41,408 | 61.5 | +6.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -9.0 |
See also[]
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- The predecessor seat: Sheffield Attercliffe
Notes and references[]
- Notes
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ 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.
- ^ The only change being the loss in 2010 of the shared part of the Richmond, South Yorkshire ward to the Sheffield Heeley constintuency.
- ^ Brightside and Hillsborough also saw the widest gender disparity with 10.5% of men were claimants, vs. 4.8% of women
- ^ This falls within the centrally coloured banding for metropolitan areas
- References
- ^ "Constituency data: electorates – House of Commons Library". Parliament UK. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ 2001 Census
- ^ Jump up to: a b Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ^ 2011 census interactive maps Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
- ^ "Sheffield South East Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
- ^ "Sheffield South East". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Sheffield South East". BBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ BBC Election 2010
- ^ Britain urged to follow Cubans' lead, Morning Star
- Parliamentary constituencies in Sheffield
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010