| Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
 Boundaries since 2024 | |
 Boundary of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough in Yorkshire and the Humber | |
| County | South Yorkshire |
| Electorate | 67,888 (December 2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Gill Furniss (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Sheffield Hillsborough,Sheffield Brightside |
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough is aconstituency[n 1] represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since 2016 byGill Furniss, a member of theLabour Party.[n 2]
Following its review of parliamentary representation inSouth Yorkshire theBoundary Commission for England recommended substantial changes to the constituency boundaries in Sheffield, to add part of theSheffield Hillsborough to the whole of theSheffield Brightside constituency (other than a handful of houses in the corner of Walkley). The rest of the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency formed the southern half of the newPenistone and Stocksbridge seat.
Since its creation, the seat has elected members of theLabour Party; the last instance of either of the two predecessor seats being held by an MP from a party other than Labour was, for both, the period prior to the1935 general election. Majorities sinceWorld War II have been substantial suggesting asafe seat on historic voting preferences.
The constituency's representative from 2010 to 2015 wasDavid Blunkett, who also represented the predecessor Sheffield Brightside constituency since 1987. Blunkett was a formerfrontbench senior minister who was a Secretary of State from 1997 until 2005 in theBlair ministry. He served the first four years of government as theSecretary of State for Education and Employment, three years as theHome Secretary and six months asSecretary of State for Work and Pensions. Blunkett retired from Parliament at the 2015 general election after representing Brightside/Brightside and Hillsborough for 28 years, the longest of any MP for the seat. The constituency representative from 2015 wasHarry Harpham until he died on 4 February 2016. He was succeeded by his widow,Gill Furniss, who won aby-election on 5 May 2016.
The City of Sheffield wards of Burngreave, Firth Park, Hillsborough, Shiregreen and Brightside, and Southey.
From the2024 election minor amendments were made to reflect modifications to ward boundaries.[2]
The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of a local government districts with: a working population whose income is close to and fractionally below the national average and that has higher than average reliance onsocial housing.[3] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency was the highest of Sheffield's five constituencies at 7.6% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.7%.[4] The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat has a reasonably high 33% of its population without a car, has 24.3% of the population without qualifications and 25.7% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure a lower than average share, 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 | David Blunkett | Labour | |
| 2015 | Harry Harpham | ||
| 2016 by-election | Gill Furniss | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gill Furniss | 16,301 | 51.6 | −5.0 | |
| Green | Christine Kubo | 4,701 | 14.9 | +11.9 | |
| Conservative | Aaron Jacob | 4,069 | 12.9 | −12.5 | |
| Independent | Maxine Bowler | 2,537 | 8.0 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Will Sapwell | 1,694 | 5.4 | +1.5 | |
| Workers Party | Mark Tyler | 1,437 | 4.5 | N/A | |
| SDP | Jeremy Turner | 873 | 2.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,600 | 36.7 | +5.5 | ||
| Turnout | 31,612 | 44.9 | −11.8 | ||
| Registered electors | 70,453 | ||||
| Labourhold | Swing | −8.5 | |||
| 2019notional result[9] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Labour | 22,838 | 56.6 | |
| Conservative | 10,247 | 25.4 | |
| Brexit Party | 3,916 | 9.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1,570 | 3.9 | |
| Green | 1,210 | 3.0 | |
| Others | 585 | 1.4 | |
| Turnout | 40,366 | 56.7 | |
| Electorate | 71,154 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gill Furniss | 22,369 | 56.5 | −10.8 | |
| Conservative | Hannah Westropp | 10,095 | 25.5 | +3.9 | |
| Brexit Party | Johnny Johnson | 3,855 | 9.7 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Porter | 1,517 | 3.8 | +1.3 | |
| Green | Christine Kubo | 1,179 | 3.0 | +1.2 | |
| UKIP | Shane Harper | 585 | 1.5 | −4.8 | |
| Majority | 12,274 | 31.0 | −14.7 | ||
| Turnout | 39,600 | 57.1 | −2.5 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gill Furniss | 28,193 | 67.3 | +10.7 | |
| Conservative | Michael Naughton | 9,050 | 21.6 | +10.6 | |
| UKIP | Shane Harper | 2,645 | 6.3 | −15.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Simon Clement-Jones | 1,061 | 2.5 | −2.0 | |
| Green | Christine Kubo | 737 | 1.8 | −2.5 | |
| Workers Revolutionary | Mike Driver | 137 | 0.3 | New | |
| SDP | Muzafar Rahman | 47 | 0.1 | New | |
| Majority | 19,143 | 45.7 | +11.2 | ||
| Turnout | 41,870 | 59.6 | +4.8 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +0.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Gill Furniss | 14,087 | 62.5 | +5.9 | |
| UKIP | Steven Winstone | 4,497 | 20.0 | −2.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Shaffaq Mohammed | 1,385 | 6.1 | +1.6 | |
| Conservative | Spencer Pitfield | 1,267 | 5.6 | −5.4 | |
| Green | Christine Kubo | 938 | 4.2 | −0.1 | |
| Yorkshire First | Stevie Manion | 349 | 1.5 | New | |
| Give Me Back Elmo | Bobby Smith | 58 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 9,590 | 42.5 | +8.0 | ||
| Turnout | 22,581 | 33.2 | −21.6 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | +4.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Harry Harpham | 22,663 | 56.6 | +1.6 | |
| UKIP | John Booker | 8,856 | 22.1 | +18.0 | |
| Conservative | Elise Dünweber | 4,407 | 11.0 | −0.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Harston | 1,802 | 4.5 | −15.5 | |
| Green | Christine Kubo | 1,712 | 4.3 | New | |
| TUSC | Maxine Bowler | 442 | 1.1 | −0.6 | |
| English Democrat | Justin Saxton | 171 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 13,807 | 34.5 | −0.5 | ||
| Turnout | 40,053 | 54.8 | −2.3 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | −8.2 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Blunkett* | 21,400 | 55.0 | −14.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Harston | 7,768 | 20.0 | +6.9 | |
| Conservative | John Sharp | 4,468 | 11.5 | +1.7 | |
| BNP | John Sheldon[16] | 3,026 | 7.8 | +3.2 | |
| UKIP | Patricia Sullivan | 1,596 | 4.1 | +1.1 | |
| TUSC | Maxine Bowler | 656 | 1.7 | New | |
| Majority | 13,632 | 35.0 | −21.5 | ||
| Turnout | 38,914 | 57.5 | +7.1 | ||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
