Sheffield Brightside (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°24′32″N 1°26′38″W / 53.409°N 1.444°W / 53.409; -1.444

Sheffield, Brightside
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Sheffield, Brightside in South Yorkshire for the 2005 general election.
Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County	South Yorkshire
1885–2010
Replaced by	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough
Created from	Sheffield

Sheffield, Brightside was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. Created for the 1885 general election, and replaced at the 2010 general election by the new constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system.

In its first fifty years, Brightside returned a variety of Liberal, Conservative and Labour MPs. However, from 1945 onwards, it became one of the Labour Party's safest seats in the United Kingdom. It was represented by David Blunkett from 1987 until its abolition, he continued to hold the successor seat until he retired in 2015, becoming the seat's longest serving MP.

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Sheffield ward of Brightside.

1918-1950: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Brightside and Burngreave.

1950-1983: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Brightside, Firth Park, Nether Shire, and Southey Green.

1983-2010: The City of Sheffield wards of Brightside, Firth Park, Nether Shire, Owlerton, and Southey Green.

Sheffield Brightside covered the north of the city. It bordered the constituencies of Rotherham, Sheffield Central, Sheffield Heeley and Sheffield Hillsborough.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Sheffield Brightside should gain all of Burngreave and Hillsborough wards, with Walkley moving to Sheffield Central, and that the constituency be renamed Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.

History

Sheffield Brightside was created in 1885 when the former Sheffield constituency was split into five constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	A. J. Mundella	Liberal
	1897 by-election	Fred Maddison	Liberal
	1900	James Hope	Conservative
	1906	Tudor Walters	Liberal
	1922	Arthur Ponsonby	Labour
	1930 by-election	Fred Marshall	Labour
	1931	Hamer Russell	Conservative
	1935	Fred Marshall	Labour
	1950	Richard Winterbottom	Labour
	1968 by-election	Edward Griffiths	Labour
	Oct 1974	Joan Maynard	Labour
	1987	David Blunkett	Labour
2010		constituency abolished

Elections

% poll by year

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Anthony John Mundella	4,616	57.7	n/a
	Conservative	Lord Edmund Talbot	3,382	42.3	n/a
Majority			1,234	15.4	n/a
Turnout				86.0	n/a
	Liberal win

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1886, Anthony John Mundella was elected unopposed.

Lord E. Talbot

General Election 1886: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Anthony John Mundella	4,280	55.7	n/a
	Conservative	Lord Edmund Talbot	3,398	44.3	n/a
Majority			882	11.4	n/a
Turnout				82.6	n/a
	Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

A.J. Mundella

General Election 1892: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Anthony John Mundella	4,938	57.4
	Conservative	H.B.F. Deane	3,661	42.6
Majority			1,277	14.8
Turnout				82.7
	Liberal hold		Swing

1895 general election and the Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1892, A. J. Mundella was elected unopposed.

F. Maddison

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Lib-Lab	Frederick Maddison	4,289	51.1
	Conservative	James Fitzalan Hope	4,106	48.9
Majority			183	2.2
Turnout				77.1
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	James Fitzalan Hope	4,992	55.3
	Lib-Lab	Frederick Maddison	4,028	44.7
Majority			964	10.6
Turnout				77.1
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1906: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Tudor Walters	5,409	55.1
	Conservative	James Fitzalan Hope	4,408	44.9
Majority			1,001	10.2
Turnout				81.1
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Tudor Walters	6,156	56.6
	Conservative	Douglas Vickers	4,200	38.7
	Social Democratic Federation	Charles Lapworth	510	4.7
Majority			1,956	17.9
Turnout				86.5
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	John Tudor Walters	5,766	59.6
	Conservative	Douglas Vickers	3,906	40.4
Majority			1,864	19.2
Turnout				77.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1918
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir John Tudor Walters	12,164	64.2
	Labour	Richard Edward Jones	6,781	35.8
Majority			5,383	28.4
Turnout				52.0
	Liberal hold		Swing

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Arthur Ponsonby

General Election 1922: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	16,692	60.4
	National Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir John Tudor Walters	10,949	39.6
Majority			5,743	20.8
Turnout				75.0
	Labour gain from National Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	14,741	53.0	-7.4
	Unionist	Matthew Sheppard	9,408	33.8	n/a
	Liberal	Thomas Illingworth Clough	3,684	13.2	n/a
Majority			5,333	19.2	-1.6
Turnout				73.0	-2.0
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	17,053	55.4
	Unionist	Matthew Sheppard	13,708	44.6
Majority			3,345	10.8
Turnout				78.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Sheffield Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby	20,277	55.2	-0.2
	Unionist	R.I. Money	9,828	26.8	-17.8
	Liberal	W.A. Lambert	6,621	18.0	n/a
Majority			10,449	28.4	+17.6
Turnout				77.3	-1.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Fred Marshall	11,543	46.3
	Conservative	Hamer Field Russell	8,612	34.6
	Liberal	W.A. Lambert	3,650	14.7
	Communist	John Thomas Murphy	1,084	4.4
Majority			2,931	11.7
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Hamer Field Russell	20,270	53.1
	Labour	Fred Marshall	15,528	40.6
	Communist	John Thomas Murphy	1,571	4.1
	New Party	E. C. Snelgrove	847	2.2
Majority			4,742	12.5
Turnout				79.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fred Marshall	18,985	58.5	+17.9
	Conservative	Hamer Field Russell	13,467	41.5	−11.6
Majority			5,518	17.0	+4.5
Turnout				68.7	+6.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Fred Marshall	19,373	61.2	+2.7
	Conservative	Brian Taylor	8,177	25.8	−15.7
	Communist	Howard Hill	4,115	13.0	N/A
Majority			11,196	35.4	+18.4
Turnout				75.5	+6.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Emanuel Winterbottom	32,542	69.6
	Conservative	H. S. V. Smith	13,136	28.1
	Communist	Howard Hill	1,081	2.3	-11.7
Majority			19,406	41.5
Turnout				84.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Emanuel Winterbottom	31,519	69.9	+0.3
	Conservative	Alfred L Wood	12,433	27.6	−0.5
	Communist	Howard Hill	1,116	2.5	+0.2
Majority			19,086	42.4	+0.9
Turnout				81.4	−3.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Emanuel Winterbottom	27,643	66.9	−3.0
	Conservative	Edward W Flynn	12,239	29.6	+2.0
	Communist	Howard Hill	1,461	3.5	+1.0
Majority			15,404	37.3	−5.1
Turnout				71.1	−10.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Emanuel Winterbottom	28,302	67.5	+0.6
	Conservative	Hugo Clifford Holmes	12,269	29.3	−0.3
	Communist	Howard Hill	1,373	3.3	−0.2
Majority			16,033	38.2	+0.9
Turnout				73.5	+2.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Winterbottom	27,317	70.7	+3.2
	Conservative	Alexander Leitch	9,963	25.8	−3.5
	Communist	Howard Hill	1,356	3.5	+0.2
Majority			17,354	44.9	+6.7
Turnout				70.3	−3.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Richard Winterbottom	26,653	75.9	+5.2
	Conservative	Raymond Whitley Hadfield	7,476	21.3	−4.5
	Communist	Howard Hill	989	2.8	−0.7
Majority			19,177	54.6	+9.7
Turnout				66.2	−4.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Edward Griffiths	14,179	55.2
	Conservative	Andrew Colin Renfrew	8,931	34.8
	Communist	Robert Wilkinson	1,069	4.1
	Independent	Ronald Guest	918	3.6
	Independent	Lt-Col. H. L. Lambert	586	2.3
Majority			5,248
Turnout			25,683
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edward Griffiths	23,941	72.2	−3.7
	Conservative	Antony Harold Newton	8,572	25.8	+4.5
	Communist	Gordon Ashberry	665	2.0	−0.8
Majority			15,369	46.3	−8.3
Turnout				62.0	−4.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Edward Griffiths	27,363	68.4	−3.8
	Conservative	John Smith	6,796	17.0	−8.8
	Liberal	Thomas Blades	5,347	13.4	N/A
	Communist	Violet Gill	513	1.3	−0.7
Majority			20,567	51.4	+5.1
Turnout				74.5	+12.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Vera Joan Maynard	18,108	49.7	−18.7
	Independent Labour	Edward Griffiths	10,182	27.9	N/A
	Conservative	Roy Walker	4,905	13.5	- 3.5
	Liberal	Thomas Blades	3,271	9.0	−4.4
Majority			7,926	21.7	−29.7
Turnout				67.4	−7.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Vera Joan Maynard	25,672	68.5	+18.8
	Conservative	Betty Knightly	7,979	21.2	+7.7
	Liberal	Malcolm Johnson	3,482	9.3	+0.3
	National Front	K. T. Brack	354	0.9	N/A
Majority			17,693	47.2	+25.5
Turnout				68.8	+1.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Vera Joan Maynard	25,531	58.0	−10.5
	Liberal	Francis Butler	10,322	23.4	+14.1
	Conservative	David Grayson	7,888	17.9	−3.3
	National Front	P. A. Spinks	286	0.7	−0.2
Majority			15,209	34.5	−14.7
Turnout				65.5	−3.3
	Labour hold		Swing

David Blunkett

General Election 1987: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Blunkett	31,208	69.9	+11.9
	Conservative	Mary Glyn	7,017	15.7	−2.2
	Liberal	John Leeman	6,434	14.4	−9.0
Majority			24,191	54.2	+19.7
Turnout			44,659	68.7	+3.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

Tim Loughton

General Election 1992: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Blunkett	29,771	70.4	+0.5
	Conservative	Timothy Paul Loughton	7,090	16.8	+1.1
	Liberal Democrat	Richard Franklin	5,273	12.5	−1.9
	International Communist	David Hyland	150	0.4	N/A
Majority			22,681	53.7	−0.5
Turnout			42,224	66.3	−2.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Blunkett	24,901	73.5	+3.1
	Liberal Democrat	Francis Butler	4,947	14.6	+2.1
	Conservative	Christopher Buckwell	2,850	8.4	−8.4
	Referendum	Brian Farnsworth	624	1.8	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Paul Davidson	482	1.4	N/A
	Natural Law	Richard Scott	61	0.2	N/A
Majority			19,954	58.9
Turnout			33,865	57.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Blunkett	19,650	76.9	+3.4
	Conservative	Matthew Wilson	2,601	10.2	+1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Alison Firth	2,238	8.8	−5.8
	Socialist Alliance	Brian Wilson	361	1.4	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Robert Morris	354	1.4	N/A
	UKIP	Anthony Suter	348	1.4	N/A
Majority			17,049	66.7
Turnout			25,552	47.2	−10.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2005: Sheffield, Brightside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Blunkett	16,876	68.5	−8.4
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Harston	3,232	13.1	+4.3
	Conservative	Tim Clark	2,205	9.0	−1.2
	BNP	Christopher Hartigan	1,537	6.2	N/A
	UKIP	Judith Clarke	779	3.2	+1.8
Majority			13,644	55.4
Turnout			24,629	48.5	+1.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.4

References

Sources

Sheffield Brightside BBC News, Election 2005
Sheffield Brightside BBC News, Vote 2001
Election history - Sheffield Brightside The Guardian
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)
Political Science Resources Election results from 1951 to present
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 - 1949
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 - 1970
Sheffield General Election Results 1945 - 2001, Sheffield City Council

Sheffield Constituencies

Current	Penistone and Stocksbridge Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Hallam Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East

Historic	Sheffield (1832–1885) Hallamshire (1885–1918) Sheffield Attercliffe (1885–2010) Sheffield Brightside (1885–2010) Sheffield Ecclesall (1885–1950) Sheffield Park (1918–1950) Sheffield Hillsborough (1918–2010) Sheffield Neepsend (1950–1955)

See also	Yorkshire West Riding of Yorkshire

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54)

Labour (33)	Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford East Bradford South Bradford West Dewsbury Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North Great Grimsby Halifax Hemsworth Huddersfield Hull East Hull North Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds West Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Rotherham Scunthorpe Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central

Conservative (19)	Beverley and Holderness Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Morley and Outwood Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer

Liberal Democrats (2)	Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam

Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (2) UKIP (2)

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