Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°21′43″N 1°25′44″W / 53.362°N 1.429°W

Sheffield South East
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of Sheffield South East in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election.

Outline map

Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County South Yorkshire
Electorate 67,792 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of parliament Clive Betts (Labour)
Created from Sheffield Attercliffe
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency Yorkshire and the Humber

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 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 Attercliffe covers the east and south-east divisions of the city comprising the electoral wards:

Constituency profile

As mentioned above, Labour majorities since 1935 have been substantial, meaning the area is potentially one of that party's safe seats. In 2010 the closest runner-up was from the Liberal Democrat candidate.

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]
Office for National Statistics November 2012Jobseekers Claimant Count
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough7.6%[n 4]
Sheffield Central4.0%
Sheffield Hallam1.5%
Sheffield Heeley5.7%
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.[4]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[5] Party
2010 Clive Betts Labour

Elections

Sheffield Attercliffe election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Sheffield South East[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CISTA Jen Battersby
Labour Clive Betts
Green Linda Shirley Duckenfield
English Democrats Matthew Roberts
Conservative Matt Sleat
Liberal Democrat Gail Smith
TUSC Ian Whitehouse
UKIP Steven Dominic Winstone[7]
General Election 2010: Sheffield South East[8]
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[9] 139 0.3 +0.3
Majority 10,505 25.4 -17.73
Turnout 41,408 61.5 +6.8
Labour hold Swing -9.0

See also

Notes and references

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
References
  1. ↑ 2010 post-revision map Greater London and metropolitan areas of England
  2. ↑ 2001 Census
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  4. ↑ 2011 census interactive maps
  5. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  6. ↑ "ELECTION: Full lists of Sheffield GE candidates are revealed". The Star.
  7. ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/sheffieldsoutheast/
  8. ↑ BBC Election 2010
  9. ↑ Britain urged to follow Cubans' lead, Morning Star