Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election.
Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County	South Yorkshire
Electorate	69,206 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Gill Furniss (Labour)
Created from	Sheffield Hillsborough, Sheffield Brightside
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Coordinates: 53°24′40″N 1°27′07″W / 53.411°N 1.452°W / 53.411; -1.452

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Gill Furniss, a member of the Labour Party.

Following its review of parliamentary representation in South Yorkshire the Boundary Commission for England recommended substantial changes to the constituency boundaries in Sheffield, to add part of the Sheffield Hillsborough to the whole of the Sheffield Brightside constituency (other than a handful of houses in the corner of Walkley). The rest of the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency formed the southern half of the new seat.

The constituency's representative from 2010 to 2015 was David Blunkett, who also represented the predecessor Sheffield Brightside constituency since 1987. Blunkett was a former frontbench senior minister who was a Secretary of State from 1997 until 2005 in the New Labour Government. He served the first four years of government as the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, three years as the Home Secretary and six months as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Blunkett retired from Parliament at the 2015 general election after representing Brightside/Brightside and Hillsborough for 28 years, the longest of any MP for the seat. The constituency representative from 2015 was Harry Harpham until he died on 4 February 2016. He was succeeded by his widow, Gill Furniss, who won a by-election on 5 May.