Sheffield Central
2010 Results:
Conservative: 4206 (10.14%)
Labour: 17138 (41.33%)
Liberal Democrat: 16973 (40.93%)
BNP: 903 (2.18%)
UKIP: 652 (1.57%)
Green: 1556 (3.75%)
Independent: 40 (0.1%)
Majority: 165 (0.4%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Labour: 13978 (46.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 9171 (30.6%)
Conservative: 3165 (10.6%)
Other: 3662 (12.2%)
Majority: 4807 (16%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 3094 (10.3%)
Labour: 14950 (49.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 7895 (26.3%)
BNP: 539 (1.8%)
Green: 1808 (6%)
UKIP: 415 (1.4%)
Other: 1284 (4.3%)
Majority: 7055 (23.5%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 3289 (10.9%)
Labour: 18477 (61.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 5933 (19.7%)
UKIP: 257 (0.9%)
Green: 1008 (3.4%)
Other: 1105 (3.7%)
Majority: 12544 (41.7%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 4341 (11.9%)
Labour: 23179 (63.6%)
Liberal Democrat: 6273 (17.2%)
Referendum: 863 (2.4%)
Other: 1763 (4.8%)
Majority: 16906 (46.4%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Paul Blomfield (Labour) Educated at York University. Qualified teacher, manager of University of Sheffield Student Union.
Andrew Lee (Conservative) Paul Blomfield (Labour) Educated at York University. Qualified teacher, manager of University of Sheffield Student Union.Paul Scriven (Liberal Democrat) born 1966, Huddersfield. Educated at Manchester University. Former hospital manager. Sheffield City councillor and Liberal Democrat group leader since 2002.Jillian Creasy (Green) Part time GP. Sheffield councillor since 2004.Jeffrey Shaw (UKIP) Tracey Smith (BNP) Rod Rodgers (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 90150
Male: 50.3%
Female: 49.7%
Under 18: 17.6%
Over 60: 15.9%
Born outside UK: 12.5%
White: 83.7%
Black: 3.7%
Asian: 7.9%
Mixed: 2.4%
Other: 2.2%
Christian: 55.1%
Hindu: 0.8%
Muslim: 8.4%
Full time students: 25.6%
Graduates 16-74: 26.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 25.1%
Owner-Occupied: 42.8%
Social Housing: 34.3% (Council: 25.3%, Housing Ass.: 9%)
Privately Rented: 19.6%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 10.1%
The polling station in Hallam had over 3000 students in new accommodation who were automatically registered in by the university going to it. The ensuing mess when they all tried to vote should have been predicted by staff paying attention to the electoral register. From reports I heard, even earlier in the day when it was quiet the staff were hardly efficient and this wont have helped in the rush. Having been at the Sheffield count, someone needs to give the elections office a shake up as the decision not to have separate ballot boxes for local/national elections was just silly.
However, no polling stations in Central constituency were as badly affected. Various stations had queues, but not as long and everyone who joined a queue was able to vote.
Delighted with the result, particularly given some of the disgustingly negative literature that the lib dems were putting out.
I veered between predicting a narrow Labour hold and a narrow Lib Dem gain, and the result shows why – 125 votes in it. It was really a very strong Lib Dem performance, and they managed to squeeze the Green vote a bit, but they couldn’t win over Tory voters and so ultimately lost out.
Am I right in thinking that Sheffield city centre was in the old Central seat from 1885-1950, Sheffield Park from 1950-1983 and this seat since?
Harry Porter,
Sheffield city centre is currently in this constituency.
These maps show that most of the city centre was in Sheffield Park between 1950 and 1983
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/boundary_map_page.jsp?u_id=12749685&c_id=10090283
but the north western part of the city centre was in the Sheffield Hillsborough seat http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/boundary_map_page.jsp?u_id=12746969&c_id=10090283
Using the ‘Vision of Britain’ website again, it appears that between 1885 and 1950 the city centre was split between the old Sheffield Central, Sheffield Attercliffe and Sheffield Ecclesall constituencies – depending on which areas you consider to be part of the ‘city centre’.
Wonder what would happen in this seat if there was an election tomorrow? I think the LD vote would be decimated given that they ran a campaign to the left of Labour, as they also attempted in Liverpool – not one which stressed cuts and agreement with the Conservative approach
“Wonder what would happen in this seat if there was an election tomorrow?”
Many of the coalition cuts have specifically hit Sheffield (e.g. Forgemasters loan), so I think the Lib Dems would do far, far worse if there was an election tomorrow. I’m sure they’d easily hold Hallam, though.
It is interesting that on the original boundary recommendations for Sheffield by the Boundary Commission , the LibDems would have won this seat easily with a majority of around 4,000 .
The original proposals were for Central to include Crooks ward instead of Manor Castle which would have been in Heeley and for Beauchief to be in Hallam instead of Crooks . Clegg’s majority in Hallam would have been around 1,000 less than the actual .