Sheffield Attercliffe

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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2010

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::summary Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2010 ::

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Field	Value
name	Sheffield Attercliffe
parliament	uk
map1	SheffieldAttercliffe
map2	EnglandSouthYorkshire
map_entity	South Yorkshire
map_year	2005
year	1885
abolished	2010
type	Borough
previous	Sheffield
next	Sheffield South East
region	England
county	South Yorkshire
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Sheffield Attercliffe was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. It was created at the 1885 general election and abolished at the 2010 general election, when it was replaced by a new Sheffield South East constituency.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Sheffield wards of Attercliffe and Park, and the civil parish of Heeley.

1918–1950: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Attercliffe and Darnall.

1950–1955: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Attercliffe, Darnall, and Handsworth.

1955–1974: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Attercliffe, Darnall, Handsworth, and Tinsley.

1974–1983: The County Borough of Sheffield wards of Attercliffe, Birley, Darnall, Handsworth, and Mosborough.

1983–2010: The City of Sheffield wards of Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Handsworth, Mosborough, Richmond and Woodhouse.

Note: there were council ward boundary changes in 2004, which abolished Handsworth and created Beighton, Mosborough, Richmond and Woodhouse.

From 1997, Sheffield Attercliffe covered much of the east and south-east of the city. It bordered the constituencies of North East Derbyshire, Rotherham, Rother Valley, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Central and Sheffield Heeley.

History

Sheffield Attercliffe constituency was created when the two-seat Sheffield constituency was split into five single-member seats in 1885.

Members of Parliament

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Election	Member	Party
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1894 by-election
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1909 by-election
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1914 by-election
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1918
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1922
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1931
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1935
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1944 by-election
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1970
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1992
2010	constituency abolished: see Sheffield South East
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Elections

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Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1940s

The 1944 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election was called following the resignation of Cecil Henry Wilson on 9 February. John Burns Hynd of the Labour Party was elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1910s

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Thomas_Casey.jpg" caption="Thomas Casey"] ::

|title=General election 1918: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Thomas Worrall Casey |votes = 12,308 |percentage = 65.3 |change = New |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = William Anderson |votes = 6,539 |percentage = 34.7 |change = −20.3 |votes = 5,769 |percentage = 30.6 |change = N/A |votes = 18,847 |percentage = 52.5 |change = −19.6 |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |loser = Labour Party (UK) |swing =

|title=By-election, 1914: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = William Anderson |winner = Labour Party (UK)

|title=General election December 1910: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Pointer |votes = 6,532 |percentage = 55.0 |change = −1.1 |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Samuel Walker |votes = 5,354 |percentage = 45.0 |change = +1.1 |votes = 1,178 |percentage = 10.0 |change = −2.2 |votes = 11,886 |percentage = 72.1 |change = −11.8 |reg. electors = 16,483 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |swing = −1.1

|title=General election January 1910: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Pointer |votes = 7,755 |percentage = 56.1 |change =N/A |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Sydney King-Farlow |votes = 6,079 |percentage = 43.9 |change = −2.9 |votes = 1,676 |percentage = 12.2 |change = N/A |votes = 13,834 |percentage = 83.9 |change = +4.7 |reg. electors = 16,483 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |loser = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = N/A

Elections in the 1900s

|title=1909 Sheffield Attercliffe by-election }} |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Joseph Pointer |votes = 3,531 |percentage = 27.5 |change = New |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Sydney Charles King-Farlow |votes = 3,380 |percentage = 26.2 |change = -20.6 |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Richard Cornthwaite Lambert |votes = 3,175 |percentage = 24.6 |change = -28.6 |party = Independent Conservative |candidate = Arnold Muir Wilson |votes = 2,803 |percentage = 21.7 |change = New |votes = 151 |percentage = 1.3 |change = N/A |votes = 12,889 |percentage = 77.3 |change = -1.9 |reg. electors = 16,676 |winner = Labour Party (UK) |loser = Liberal Party (UK) |swing =

|title=General election 1906: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = J. Batty Langley |votes = 6,523 |percentage = 53.2 |change = N/A |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Arnold Muir Wilson |votes = 5,736 |percentage = 46.8 |change = New |votes = 787 |percentage = 6.4 |change = N/A |votes = 12,259 |percentage = 79.2 |change = N/A |reg. electors = 15,484 |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = N/A

|party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = J. Batty Langley |winner = Liberal Party (UK)

Elections in the 1890s

|party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = J. Batty Langley |winner = Liberal Party (UK)

This by-election was called due to the resignation on 26 June of Bernard John Seymour Coleridge following his inheritance of the title of Baron Coleridge. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/J.Batty_Langley.jpg" caption="J. Batty Langley"] ::

Elections in the 1880s

|title=General election 1886: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Bernard Coleridge |votes = 4,365 |percentage = 59.6 |change = +2.2 |party = Liberal Unionist Party |candidate = Frederick William Maude |votes = 2,958 |percentage = 40.4 |change = −2.2 |votes = 1,407 |percentage = 19.2 |change = +4.4 |votes = 7,323 |percentage = 75.1 |change = −12.3 |reg. electors = 9,751 |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = +2.2

|title=General election 1885: Sheffield Attercliffe}} |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = Bernard Coleridge |votes = 4,891 |percentage = 57.4 |change = |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Edward Brodie Hoare |votes = 3,633 |percentage = 42.6 |change = |votes = 1,258 |percentage = 14.8 |change = |votes = 8,524 |percentage = 87.4 |change = |reg. electors = 9,751 |winner = Liberal Party (UK)

Sources

BBC News, Election 2005
BBC News, Vote 2001
Guardian Unlimited Politics
Politicsresources.net - Official Web Site ✔ (Election results from 1951 to the 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

References

"Election Data 2005". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 2001". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1997". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1992". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
(1974). "British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918". Macmillan Press.
(19 Jun 1894). "Election News". [[York Herald (newspaper).
(3 July 1886). "Borough of Sheffield". Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
(14 November 1885). "Attercliffe Division". Sheffield Independent.

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