Sheffield Brightside (UK Parliament constituency)

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

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

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.