Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°24′40″N 1°27′07″W / 53.411°N 1.452°W
| Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | |
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| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election. |
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 Location of South Yorkshire within England. |
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| County | South Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 69,206 (December 2010) |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | David Blunkett (Labour) |
| Created from | Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Brightside |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire the Boundary Commission for England recommended substantial changes to the constituency boundaries in Sheffield, including the abolition of the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency and the redrawing of the Sheffield Brightside constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough was formed from electoral wards from entirely within the city of Sheffield, namely:
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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| 2010 | David Blunkett | Labour | |
[edit] Election results
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough was fought for the first time at the United Kingdom general election in 2010.
| General Election 2010: Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough[2][3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | David Blunkett* | 21,400 | 55.0 | -14.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jonathan Harston | 7,768 | 20.0 | +6.9 | |
| Conservative | John Sharp | 4,468 | 11.5 | +1.7 | |
| BNP | John Sheldon | 3,026 | 7.8 | +3.2 | |
| UKIP | Patricia Sullivan | 1,596 | 4.1 | +1.1 | |
| Trade Unionist & Socialist | Maxine Bowler | 656 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
| Majority | 13,632 | 35.0 | |||
| Turnout | 38,594 | 57.1 | +7.1 | ||
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
[edit] See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire
- Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election
[edit] References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, UK Polling Report
- ^ New BNP Candidate in Sheffield Calls for War Crimes Trial for David Blunkett
- ^ "UK > England> Yorkshire & the Humber > Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough". Election 2010. BBC. 7 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d95.stm. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
