Sheffield | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
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 of 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.
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 | Member 2 | Party | ||
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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] | ||||
1859 | Liberal | Independent Liberal[13] | ||||
1868 | 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 | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | A. J. Mundella | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | |
Liberal | 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 | % | ±% | |
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Independent Liberal | John Arthur Roebuck | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | George Hadfield | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 7,381 | ||||
Independent Liberal hold | |||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | ||
Ind. Whig gain from Whig | Swing | N/A | |||
Majority | 273 | 4.0 | −26.6 | ||
Radical hold | Swing | +2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent Whig | John Arthur Roebuck | Unopposed | |||
Ind. Whig gain from Radical |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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 | % | ±% | |
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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) |