Sheffield Heeley (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield Heeley
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Sheffield Heeley in South Yorkshire for the 2010 general election.
Location of South Yorkshire within England.
County	South Yorkshire
Electorate	66,432 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of parliament	Louise Haigh (Labour Co-op)
Number of members	One
Created from	Sheffield Ecclesall
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Coordinates: 53°22′08″N 1°28′01″W / 53.369°N 1.467°W / 53.369; -1.467

Sheffield Heeley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Louise Haigh, a member of the Labour Party.

This seat was created in 1950, largely replacing the former Sheffield Ecclesall constituency, its boundaries being significantly altered in 1955 with the abolition of Sheffield Neepsend. In the first five elections, up to but excluding 1966, the seat was won by a Conservative, Peter Roberts, it changed hands three times between 1966 and 1974.

Seeing a reverse-swing to that nationally, the 1979 election saw Sheffield Heeley move away from being a marginal Labour seat to a solid majority — in the seven elections since, only the first and the last have been fairly marginal, the others have suggested a safe seat. In the 2010 election the Liberal Democrat had more than a quarter of the vote, whereas the Conservative garnered 3% more votes than in 2005, on 17.3%.