Sheffield (UK Parliament constituency)

SeatsTwo

Replaced bySheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Ecclesall, Sheffield Hallam, and Sheffield Central

Sheffield
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Sheffield borough constituency in 1832
County	West Riding of Yorkshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Yorkshire
Replaced by	Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Ecclesall, Sheffield Hallam, and Sheffield Central

Sheffield was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of elections.

The constituency encompassed the urban part of the town and parish (now city) of Sheffield, England, but not the western, rural, parts of Upper Hallam and Ecclesall Bierlow, which were incorporated into Sheffield Town Borough in 1843.

Before 1832 Sheffield had been represented by the Yorkshire constituency. The Sheffield Borough constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, and was given two MPs, the first time that the town had been represented in the House of Commons. Four candidates stood at the first election contesting these two seats. Voting took place on 13 and 14 December 1832, with the results declared on 15 December (see below). The election sparked a riot on 14 December, which resulted in the military being called out. The soldiers fired on the crowd, killing six people and injuring several others.^[1] Following the Redistribution of Seats Act in 1885, which sought to eliminate constituencies with more than one MP and give greater representation to urban areas, the Borough of Sheffield was sub-divided. The five new divisions—Attercliffe, Brightside, Ecclesall, Hallam, and Sheffield Central—each returned a single MP.

Members of Parliament

Two MPs were elected at each general election. The table below shows the election years in which one or both of the MPs changed.^[2]^[3]

Election	Member 1		Party		Party
1832		John Parker	Whig^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]	James Silk Buckingham	Radical^[6]^[8]^[9]
1837				Henry George Ward	Radical^[6]^[10]^[11]^[12]
1849 by-election				John Arthur Roebuck	Independent Whig^[13]^[14]
1852		George Hadfield	Radical^[4]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]		Independent Whig^[13]^[14]
1859			Liberal		Independent Liberal^[13]
1868			Liberal	A. J. Mundella	Liberal
1874		John Arthur Roebuck	Independent Liberal
1879 by-election		Samuel Danks Waddy	Liberal
1880		Charles Stuart-Wortley	Conservative
1885	Constituency divided

The constituency was sub-divided in 1885. The sitting MPs, A. J. Mundella and Charles Stuart-Wortley subsequently stood for and won seats in one of the new constituencies (Sheffield Brightside and Sheffield Hallam respectively).

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	A. J. Mundella	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	A. J. Mundella	17,217	34.2	+1.0
	Conservative	Charles Stuart-Wortley	16,546	32.9	*N/A*
	Liberal	Samuel Danks Waddy	16,506	32.8	+3.3
Turnout			33,408 (est)	78.1 (est)	+15.3
Registered electors			42,794
Majority			671	1.3	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			40	0.1	N/A
	Conservative gain from Independent Liberal		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Danks Waddy	14,062	50.9	−12.4
	Conservative	Charles Stuart-Wortley	13,584	49.1	New
Majority			478	1.8	N/A
Turnout			27,646	70.4	+17.6
Registered electors			39,270
	Liberal gain from Independent Liberal		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	John Arthur Roebuck^[20]	14,193	36.7	+13.8
	Liberal	A. J. Mundella	12,858	33.2	+4.0
	Liberal	Joseph Chamberlain	11,053	28.5	N/A
	Liberal	Alfred Allott	621	1.6	N/A
Majority			3,140	8.2	N/A
Turnout			19,363 (est)	52.8 (est)	−17.1
Registered electors			36,701
	Independent Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing	+4.9
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Hadfield	14,793	35.3	+4.8
	Liberal	A. J. Mundella	12,212	29.2	+14.8
	Independent Liberal	John Arthur Roebuck	9,571	22.9	−8.2
	Conservative	Edwin Plumer Price^[22]	5,272	12.6	−11.4
Majority			2,641	6.3	N/A
Turnout			20,924 (est)	69.9 (est)	+5.9
Registered electors			29,955
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.5
	Liberal gain from Independent Liberal		Swing	+9.5

Sheffield (UK Parliament constituency)

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1830s

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	John Arthur Roebuck	3,410	31.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	George Hadfield	3,348	30.5	*N/A*
	Conservative	James Stuart-Wortley	2,626	24.0	New
	Independent	Thomas Campbell Foster^[23]	1,576	14.4	N/A
Turnout			5,480 (est)	64.0 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			8,557
Majority			62	0.6	N/A
	Independent Liberal hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			722	6.5	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Whig	John Arthur Roebuck	3,200	39.4	+8.2
	Radical	George Hadfield	2,871	35.3	+7.7
	Conservative	William Overend^[24]	2,059	25.3	+7.7
Turnout			5,095 (est)	74.1 (est)	+11.1
Registered electors			6,874
Majority			329	4.1	+0.5
	Independent Whig hold		Swing	+2.2
Majority			812	1.0	−3.0
	Radical hold		Swing	+1.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Whig	John Arthur Roebuck	2,092	31.2	*N/A*
	Radical	George Hadfield	1,853	27.6	−15.7
	Whig	John Parker	1,580	23.6	−20.3
	Conservative	William Overend^[25]	1,180	17.6	New
Turnout			3,353 (est)	63.0 (est)	+34.7
Registered electors			5,322
Majority			239	3.6	N/A
	Independent Whig gain from Whig		Swing	N/A
Majority			273	4.0	−26.6
	Radical hold		Swing	+2.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Parker	1,125	43.9	+3.8
	Radical	Henry George Ward	1,110	43.3	+4.2
	Chartist	Thomas Clark	326	12.7	New
Turnout			1,444 (est)	29.3 (est)	−23.8
Registered electors			4,934
Majority			15	0.6	−0.4
	Whig hold		Swing	−0.2
Majority			784	30.6	+2.4
	Radical hold		Swing	+0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Parker	1,849	40.1	−5.3
	Radical	Henry George Ward	1,805	39.1	−1.9
	Conservative	David Urquhart	503	10.9	+4.1
	Conservative	William Sheppard	457	9.9	+3.1
Turnout			2,307 (est)	53.1 (est)	c. −13.9
Registered electors			4,347
Majority			44	1.0	−3.4
	Whig hold		Swing	−4.5
Majority			1,302	28.2	+0.8
	Radical hold		Swing	−2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Parker	2,186	45.4	−20.8
	Radical	Henry George Ward	1,976	41.0	+7.2
	Conservative	John Thorneley	655	13.6	New
Turnout			2,700	67.0	−16.2
Registered electors			4,028
Majority			210	4.4	+3.2
	Whig hold		Swing	−14.0
Majority			1,321	27.4	+24.8
	Radical hold		Swing	+14.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Parker	414	100.0	+33.8
	Radical	John Bell	0	0.0	−33.8
Majority			414	100.0	+98.8
Turnout			414	10.6	−72.6
Registered electors			3,903
	Whig hold		Swing	+33.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Parker	1,607	35.0	+4.9
	Radical	James Silk Buckingham	1,554	33.8	−19.9
	Whig	Samuel Bailey	1,434	31.2	+15.1
Turnout			2,986	83.2	−9.2
Registered electors			3,587
Majority			53	1.2	+0.9
	Whig hold		Swing	+7.4
Majority			120	2.6	−3.1
	Radical hold		Swing	−20.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	John Parker	1,515	30.1
	Radical	James Silk Buckingham	1,498	29.7
	Radical	Thomas Asline Ward	1,210	24.0
	Whig	Samuel Bailey	813	16.1
Turnout			3,056	92.4
Registered electors			3,308
Majority			17	0.4
	Whig win (new seat)
Majority			288	5.7
	Radical win (new seat)

v t e 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 (1918–1983) Sheffield Hillsborough (1918–2010) Sheffield Neepsend (1950–1955)
See also	Yorkshire West Riding of Yorkshire