Sheffield Brightside (UK Parliament constituency)
Sheffield, Brightside was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. Created for the 1885 general election, and replaced at the 2010 general election by the new constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Sheffield, Brightside | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Sheffield, Brightside in South Yorkshire for the 2005 general election | |
Location of South Yorkshire within England | |
County | South Yorkshire |
1885–2010 | |
Replaced by | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough |
Created from | Sheffield |
In its first fifty years, Brightside returned a variety of Liberal, Conservative and Labour MPs. However, from 1945 onwards, it became one of the Labour Party's safest seats in the United Kingdom. It was represented by David Blunkett from 1987 until its abolition; he continued to hold the successor seat until he retired in 2015, becoming the seat's longest-serving MP.
Boundaries
1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Sheffield ward of Brightside.
1918–1950: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Brightside and Burngreave.
1950–1983: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Brightside, Firth Park, Nether Shire, and Southey Green.
1983–2010: The City of Sheffield wards of Brightside, Firth Park, Nether Shire, Owlerton, and Southey Green.
Sheffield Brightside covered the north of the city. It bordered the constituencies of Rotherham, Sheffield Central, Sheffield Heeley and Sheffield Hillsborough.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Sheffield Brightside should gain all of Burngreave and Hillsborough wards, with Walkley moving to Sheffield Central, and that the constituency be renamed Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.
History
Sheffield Brightside was created in 1885 when the former Sheffield constituency was split into five constituencies.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | A. J. Mundella | Liberal | |
1897 by-election | Fred Maddison | Liberal | |
1900 | James Hope | Conservative | |
1906 | Tudor Walters | Liberal | |
1922 | Arthur Ponsonby | Labour | |
1930 by-election | Fred Marshall | Labour | |
1931 | Hamer Russell | Conservative | |
1935 | Fred Marshall | Labour | |
1950 | Richard Winterbottom | Labour | |
1968 by-election | Edward Griffiths | Labour | |
Oct 1974 | Joan Maynard | Labour | |
1987 | David Blunkett | Labour | |
2010 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | 4,616 | 57.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Edmund Fitzalan-Howard | 3,382 | 42.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,234 | 15.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,998 | 86.0 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,298 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Mundella was appointed President of the Board of Trade, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | 4,280 | 55.7 | −2.0 | |
Conservative | Edmund Fitzalan-Howard | 3,398 | 44.3 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 882 | 11.4 | −4.0 | ||
Turnout | 7,678 | 82.6 | −3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 9,298 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.0 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | 4,938 | 57.4 | +1.7 | |
Conservative | Bargrave Deane[2] | 3,661 | 42.6 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 1,277 | 14.8 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 8,599 | 82.7 | +0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 10,400 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Mundella was appointed President of the Board of Trade, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | A. J. Mundella | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Mundella's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lib-Lab | Frederick Maddison | 4,289 | 51.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Hope | 4,106 | 48.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 183 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,395 | 74.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 11,301 | ||||
Lib-Lab hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Hope | 4,992 | 55.3 | N/A | |
Lib-Lab | Frederick Maddison | 4,028 | 44.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 964 | 10.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,020 | 77.1 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 11,700 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Tudor Walters | 5,409 | 55.1 | +10.4 | |
Conservative | James Hope | 4,408 | 44.9 | −10.4 | |
Majority | 1,001 | 10.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 9,817 | 81.1 | +4.0 | ||
Registered electors | 12,108 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.4 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Tudor Walters | 6,156 | 56.6 | +1.5 | |
Conservative | Douglas Vickers | 4,200 | 38.7 | −6.2 | |
Social Democratic Federation | Charles Lapworth | 510 | 4.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,956 | 17.9 | +7.7 | ||
Turnout | 10,866 | 86.5 | +5.4 | ||
Registered electors | 12,564 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +3.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Tudor Walters | 5,766 | 59.6 | +3.0 | |
Conservative | Douglas Vickers | 3,906 | 40.4 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 1,864 | 19.2 | +1.3 | ||
Turnout | 9,672 | 77.0 | −9.5 | ||
Registered electors | 12,564 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Tudor Walters | 12,164 | 64.2 | +4.6 |
Labour | Richard Edward Jones | 6,781 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,383 | 28.4 | +9.2 | ||
Turnout | 18,945 | 52.0 | −25.0 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Ponsonby | 16,692 | 60.4 | ||
National Liberal | Tudor Walters | 10,949 | 39.6 | ||
Majority | 5,743 | 20.8 | |||
Turnout | 75.0 | ||||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Ponsonby | 14,741 | 53.0 | -7.4 | |
Unionist | Matthew Sheppard | 9,408 | 33.8 | n/a | |
Liberal | Thomas Illingworth Clough | 3,684 | 13.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,333 | 19.2 | -1.6 | ||
Turnout | 73.0 | -2.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Ponsonby | 17,053 | 55.4 | ||
Unionist | Matthew Sheppard | 13,708 | 44.6 | ||
Majority | 3,345 | 10.8 | |||
Turnout | 78.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Ponsonby | 20,277 | 55.2 | -0.2 | |
Unionist | R.I. Money | 9,828 | 26.8 | -17.8 | |
Liberal | W.A.Lambert | 6,621 | 18.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 10,449 | 28.4 | +17.6 | ||
Turnout | 77.3 | -1.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Marshall | 11,543 | 46.3 | ||
Conservative | Hamer Russell | 8,612 | 34.6 | ||
Liberal | W.A. Lambert | 3,650 | 14.7 | ||
Communist | J. T. Murphy | 1,084 | 4.4 | ||
Majority | 2,931 | 11.7 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Hamer Russell | 20,270 | 53.1 | ||
Labour | Fred Marshall | 15,528 | 40.6 | ||
Communist | J. T. Murphy | 1,571 | 4.1 | ||
New Party | E. C. Snelgrove | 847 | 2.2 | ||
Majority | 4,742 | 12.5 | |||
Turnout | 79.6 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Marshall | 18,985 | 58.5 | +17.9 | |
Conservative | Hamer Russell | 13,467 | 41.5 | −11.6 | |
Majority | 5,518 | 17.0 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 68.7 | +6.8 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Fred Marshall | 19,373 | 61.2 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Brian Taylor | 8,177 | 25.8 | −15.7 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 4,115 | 13.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,196 | 35.4 | +18.4 | ||
Turnout | 75.5 | +6.8 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 32,542 | 69.6 | ||
Conservative and National Liberal | H. S. V. Smith | 13,136 | 28.1 | ||
Communist | Howard Hill | 1,081 | 2.3 | -11.7 | |
Majority | 19,406 | 41.5 | |||
Turnout | 84.6 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 31,519 | 69.9 | +0.3 | |
Conservative and National Liberal | Alfred L Wood | 12,433 | 27.6 | −0.5 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 1,116 | 2.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 19,086 | 42.4 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 81.4 | −3.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 27,643 | 66.9 | −3.0 | |
Conservative and National Liberal | Edward W Flynn | 12,239 | 29.6 | +2.0 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 1,461 | 3.5 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 15,404 | 37.3 | −5.1 | ||
Turnout | 71.1 | −10.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 28,302 | 67.5 | +0.6 | |
Conservative | Hugo Clifford Holmes | 12,269 | 29.3 | −0.3 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 1,373 | 3.3 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 16,033 | 38.2 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 73.5 | +2.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 27,317 | 70.7 | +3.2 | |
Conservative | Alexander Leitch | 9,963 | 25.8 | −3.5 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 1,356 | 3.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 17,354 | 44.9 | +6.7 | ||
Turnout | 70.3 | −3.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Winterbottom | 26,653 | 75.9 | +5.2 | |
Conservative | Raymond Whitley Hadfield | 7,476 | 21.3 | −4.5 | |
Communist | Howard Hill | 989 | 2.8 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 19,177 | 54.6 | +9.7 | ||
Turnout | 66.2 | −4.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Griffiths | 14,179 | 55.2 | -20.7 | |
Conservative | Colin Renfrew | 8,931 | 34.8 | +13.5 | |
Communist | Robert Wilkinson | 1,069 | 4.1 | +1.3 | |
Independent | Ronald Guest | 918 | 3.6 | N/A | |
Independent | H. L. Lambert | 586 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,248 | 20.4 | -34.2 | ||
Turnout | 25,683 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Griffiths | 23,941 | 72.2 | −3.7 | |
Conservative | Tony Newton | 8,572 | 25.8 | +4.5 | |
Communist | Gordon Ashberry | 665 | 2.0 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 15,369 | 46.3 | −8.3 | ||
Turnout | 62.0 | −4.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edward Griffiths | 27,363 | 68.4 | −3.8 | |
Conservative | John Smith | 6,796 | 17.0 | −8.8 | |
Liberal | Thomas Blades | 5,347 | 13.4 | N/A | |
Communist | Violet Gill | 513 | 1.3 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 20,567 | 51.4 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 74.5 | +12.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joan Maynard | 18,108 | 49.7 | −18.7 | |
Independent Labour | Edward Griffiths | 10,182 | 27.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Roy Walker | 4,905 | 13.5 | - 3.5 | |
Liberal | Thomas Blades | 3,271 | 9.0 | −4.4 | |
Majority | 7,926 | 21.7 | −29.7 | ||
Turnout | 67.4 | −7.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joan Maynard | 25,672 | 68.5 | +18.8 | |
Conservative | Betty Knightly | 7,979 | 21.2 | +7.7 | |
Liberal | Malcolm Johnson | 3,482 | 9.3 | +0.3 | |
National Front | K. T. Brack | 354 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,693 | 47.2 | +25.5 | ||
Turnout | 68.8 | +1.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joan Maynard | 25,531 | 58.0 | −10.5 | |
Liberal | Francis Butler | 10,322 | 23.4 | +14.1 | |
Conservative | David Grayson | 7,888 | 17.9 | −3.3 | |
National Front | P. A. Spinks | 286 | 0.7 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 15,209 | 34.5 | −14.7 | ||
Turnout | 65.5 | −3.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blunkett | 31,208 | 69.9 | +11.9 | |
Conservative | Mary Glyn | 7,017 | 15.7 | −2.2 | |
Liberal | John Leeman | 6,434 | 14.4 | −9.0 | |
Majority | 24,191 | 54.2 | +19.7 | ||
Turnout | 44,659 | 68.7 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blunkett | 29,771 | 70.4 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 7,090 | 16.8 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Franklin | 5,273 | 12.5 | −1.9 | |
International Communist | David Hyland | 150 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 22,681 | 53.7 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,224 | 66.3 | −2.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blunkett | 24,901 | 73.5 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Francis Butler | 4,947 | 14.6 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | Christopher Buckwell | 2,850 | 8.4 | −8.4 | |
Referendum | Brian Farnsworth | 624 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Paul Davidson | 482 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Richard Scott | 61 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,954 | 58.9 | |||
Turnout | 33,865 | 57.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blunkett | 19,650 | 76.9 | +3.4 | |
Conservative | Matthew Wilson | 2,601 | 10.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Firth | 2,238 | 8.8 | −5.8 | |
Socialist Alliance | Brian Wilson | 361 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Robert Morris | 354 | 1.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Anthony Suter | 348 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,049 | 66.7 | |||
Turnout | 25,552 | 47.2 | −10.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Blunkett | 16,876 | 68.5 | −8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Harston | 3,232 | 13.1 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Tim Clark | 2,205 | 9.0 | −1.2 | |
BNP | Christopher Hartigan | 1,537 | 6.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Judith Clarke | 779 | 3.2 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 13,644 | 55.4 | |||
Turnout | 24,629 | 48.5 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −6.4 |
References
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- Sheffield Brightside BBC News, Election 2005
- Sheffield Brightside BBC News, Vote 2001
- Election history - Sheffield Brightside The Guardian
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