Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield South East
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	67,792 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010 (2010)
Member of Parliament	Clive Betts (Labour)
Created from	Sheffield Attercliffe
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Sheffield South East is a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield, first used in the General Election 2010. It succeeded the existing Sheffield Attercliffe represented by the Labour MP Clive Betts following boundary changes in the South Yorkshire region recommended by The Boundary Commission for the next General Election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 4.1 Elections in the 2010s 4.2 Elections in the 2000s 5 See also 6 References

Boundaries

Sheffield Attercliffe covered much of the east and south east of the city including the wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, Woodhouse, and parts of Richmond ward.

Following the review into parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire, the new Sheffield South East consists of the electoral wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, and Woodhouse.

History

Sheffield Attercliffe constituency was created when the Sheffield constituency was split into five in 1885.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [1]	Party
	2010	Clive Betts	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Sheffield South East[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	20,169	48.7	-11.6
	Liberal Democrat	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[3]	139	0.3	+0.3
Majority			10,505	25.4	-17.73
Turnout			41,408	61.5	+6.8
	Labour hold		Swing	-9.0

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Sheffield, Attercliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	22,250	60.10	-7.69
	Liberal Democrat	Kevin Moore	6,283	16.97	+2.76
	Conservative	Tracy Critchlow	5,329	14.40	-0.80
	UKIP	Jonathan Arnott	1,680	4.54	+1.74
	BNP	Beverley Jones	1,477	3.99	N/A
Majority			15,967	43.13
Turnout			37,019	54.59
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.22

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire
• Constituencies in the United Kingdom general election, 2010

References

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54) Labour (31) Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford South Bradford West Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North Great Grimsby Halifax Hemsworth Huddersfield Hull East Hull North Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds West Morley and Outwood Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Scunthorpe Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central Conservative (19) Beverley and Holderness Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley Dewsbury East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer Liberal Democrats (3) Bradford East Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam Independent (1) Rotherham Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Liberal Democrats (2) Conservative (1) Labour (1) UKIP (1) British National Party (1)