Sheffield South East | |
---|---|
Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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]
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.
The predecessor, Sheffield Attercliffe, was a Labour seat from 1935 since which date candidates of the party had received substantial majorities.
The City of Sheffield wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, and Woodhouse.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 general election, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, parts of the Richmond ward will be transferred from Sheffield Heeley.
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.
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. [3] At the end of 2012, the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 4.4% of the population claiming jobseekers' allowance (see table). [4]
Sheffield's Seats Compared - worklessness [4] | |
---|---|
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. [5]
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Clive Betts | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Clive Betts [8] | ||||
Independent | Jack Carrington | ||||
Conservative | Caroline Kampila | ||||
SDP | Matthew Leese [9] | ||||
Green | Hannah Nicklin [10] | ||||
Workers Party | Muzafar Rahman [11] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Sophie Thornton [12] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |