Sheffield Attercliffe (UK Parliament constituency)

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Sheffield Attercliffe Borough constituency
shown within South Yorkshire
Used by	UK House of Commons
Created	1885
MP	Clive Betts
Party	Labour
Local authorities	Sheffield (South Yorkshire)
Neighbouring constituencies	North East Derbyshire, Rotherham, Rother Valley, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Central, Sheffield Heeley

Sheffield Attercliffe is a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. It is currently represented by the Labour MP Clive Betts and is considered a safe Labour seat.

Contents

1 Boundaries 2 Member of Parliament 3 Election results 4 Politics and history of the constituency 5 See also 6 Sources

Boundaries

Sheffield Attercliffe covers much of east and south east the city including the wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough, Woodhouse, and parts of Richmond ward.

Member of Parliament

• Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, later Baron Coleridge, Conservative (1885–1894)
• J Batty Langley, Liberal (1894–1909)
• Joseph Pointer, Labour (1909–1914)
• William Crawford Anderson, Independent Labour Party (1914–1918)
• Thomas Worrall Casey (1918–1922)
• Cecil Henry Wilson, Labour (1922–1931; 1935–1944)
• Cecil Frederick Pike (1931–1935)
• John Burns Hynd, Labour (1944–1970)
• Patrick Duffy, Labour (1970–1992)
• Clive Betts, Labour (1992– )

Election results

General Election 2005: Sheffield, Attercliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	22,250	60.10	-7.69
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Moore	6,283	16.97	+2.76
	Conservative	Tracy Critchlow	5,329	14.40	-0.80
	UKIP	Jonathan Arnott	1,680	4.54	+1.74
	BNP	Beverley Jones	1,477	3.99	N/A
Majority			15,967
Turnout			37,019	54.59
	Labour hold		Swing	-5.22

General Election 2001: Sheffield, Attercliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	24,287	67.8	+2.5
	Conservative	John Perry	5,443	15.2	-0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Smith	5,092	14.2	-1.5
	UKIP	Pauline Arnott	1,002	2.8	N/A
Majority			18,844	52.6
Turnout			35,824	52.9	-11.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Sheffield, Attercliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	28,937	65.3	+7.8
	Conservative	Brendan Doyle	7,119	16.1	−10.2
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Smith	6,973	15.7	+1.0
	Referendum Party	James Brown	1,289	2.9	N/A
Majority			21,818	49.2
Turnout			44,318	64.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Sheffield, Attercliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clive Betts	28,563	57.5
	Conservative	Gordon Millward	13,083	26.3
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Wooley	7,283	14.7
	Green	G Ferguson	751	1.5
Majority			15,480	31.2
Turnout			49,680	71.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Politics and history of the constituency

Sheffield Attercliffe constituency was created when the Sheffield constituency was split into five.

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

Sources

• BBC News, Election 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/509.stm)
• BBC News, Vote 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/509.stm)
• Guardian Unlimited Politics (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/constituency/history/0,9571,-1277,00.html)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page (http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/acommons3.htm)

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