Sheffield South East (UK Parliament constituency)

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]

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
CountySouth Yorkshire
Electorate67,031 (December 2019)[1]
Current constituency
Created2010
Member of ParliamentClive Betts (Labour)
Created fromSheffield Attercliffe

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 England 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

The City of Sheffield wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, and Woodhouse.

Constituency profile

Labour majorities from 1935 until 2019 were substantial, making it one of the party's safe seats. In 2010 the closest runner-up was from 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 4000 votes, making it a marginal seat with the Conservatives.

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 2019: Sheffield South East[6]
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
General election 2017: Sheffield South East[7]
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
General election 2015: Sheffield South East[8][9]
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
General election 2010: Sheffield South East[10][11][12]
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

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. "Constituency data: electorates – House of Commons Library". Parliament UK. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  2. 2001 Census
  3. Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  4. 2011 census interactive maps Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  6. "Sheffield South East Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  7. "Sheffield South East". Sheffield City Council. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  8. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  9. "Sheffield South East". BBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  10. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  11. BBC Election 2010
  12. Britain urged to follow Cubans' lead, Morning Star
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