Labour won all six of Sheffield’s parliamentary constituencies at Thursday’s general election, on the way to a landslide victory across the country.
Marie Tidball won in Penistone & Stocksbridge to beat the Conservative candidate and former MP Miriam Cates, gaining the seat for Labour with a majority of 8,700.
Cates had served as the constituency’s MP between 2019 and the dissolution of Parliament in May, one of the gains the Conservatives made in the so-called ‘Red Wall’ of long-held Labour constituencies across the North of England.
Tidball’s victory this time signifies the rebuilding of the ‘Red Wall’, and was one of 218 Labour gains across the country on a night which saw Keir Starmer’s Party record their highest amount of seats since 2001.
Olivia Blake also returned as MP in Sheffield Hallam, increasing her majority over the Liberal Democrats from a notional 1,100 in 2019, to over 8,000 this time around- despite Liberal Democrats returning a record number of MPs around the country with 72 now sitting in Parliament, far more than the 11 elected in 2019.
Gill Furniss was successfully re-elected in Brightside & Hillsborough with a majority of just under 12,000, while Sheffield political veteran Clive Betts was re-elected in Sheffield South East, beginning his ninth term there.
Betts was first elected there in 1992 when the constituency was known as Sheffield Attercliffe and has been in parliament ever since.
Louise Haigh, who had served as Sheffield Heeley’s MP since 2015, won again with an increased majority of 15,000 and was duly appointed Secretary of State for Transport.
Haigh had served as Shadow Transport Secretary since 2021, and will be the first Sheffield MP to occupy a senior government position since the former Sheffield Hallam MP, Nick Clegg, held the role of Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2015.
However, it was not all plain sailing for Labour, with the party seeing a significant cut in their majority in Sheffield Central, in part due to a strong performance from the Green Party, and their candidate, Angela Argenzio.
Despite only being selected in the days before the close of nominations, Argenzio won 26% of the vote, which contributed heavily to the Labour majority falling from a notional figure of 21,000 in 2019, to around 8,000.
Nevertheless, Labour won the seat with Abtisam Mohamed, who replaced Paul Blomfield after Blomfield chose leave parliament at this election after 14 years in office.
Voter turnout was down sharply across the whole of Sheffield, with four of six constituencies recording drops in turnout of more than 10 percentage points or more, larger than the national trend which saw turnout fall by 7.4 points.
The largest fall in turnout was recorded in Sheffield South East, which saw a fall from 61% in 2019, to 48% in 2024, while the lowest turnout overall was in Brightside & Hillsborough, where only 44.9% of those registered turned out to vote.
City-wide turnout across the six constituencies was a meagre 53.95%, a mere 0.1 points higher than the local record low in 2001, and six points below the national average.
Full Sheffield Election Results by constituency:
Penistone & Stocksbridge:
Marie Tidball, Labour – 19,169 votes (43.6%)
Miriam Cates, Conservative – 10,430 votes (23.7%)
Edward Dillingham, Reform UK, 9,456 votes (21.5%)
Rob Reiss, Liberal Democrats, 2,866 votes (6.5%)
Andy Davies, Green, 2,044 votes (4.6%)
Turnout: 62.1%
Sheffield Hallam
Olivia Blake, Labour – 23,875 votes (46.3%)
Shaffaq Mohammed, Liberal Democrats – 15,686 (30.4%)
Isaac Howarth, Conservative – 6,205 (12.0%)
Jason Leman, Green – 4,191 (8.7%)
Andrew Cowell, Social Democratic Party (SDP) – 654 (1.3%)
Sam Chapman, Rejoin EU – 409 (0.8%)
Mo Moui-Tabrizy, Workers Party – 281 (0.5%)
Turnout: 70.7%
Sheffield Central
Abtisam Mohamed, Labour – 16,569 votes (52.1%)
Angela Argenzio, Green – 8,283 (26.0%)
Lucy Stephenson, Conservative – 2,339 (7.4%)
Sam Christmas, Liberal Democrats – 2,174 (6.8%)
Alison Teal, Independent – 1,039 (3.3%)
Caitlin Hardy, Workers Party – 656 (2.1%)
Isabelle France, Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) – 409 (1.3%)
Annie Stoker, SDP – 334 (1.1%)
Turnout: 45.1%
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough
Gill Furniss, Labour – 16,301 votes (51.6%)
Christine Gilligan Kubo, Green – 4,701 (14.9%)
Aaron Jacob, Conservative – 4,069 (12.9%)
Maxine Bowler, Independent – 2,537 (8.0%)
William Sapwell, Liberal Democrats – 1,694 (5.4%)
Mark Tyler, Workers Party – 1,437 (4.5%)
Jeremy Turner, SDP – 873 (2.8%)
Turnout: 44.9%
Sheffield Heeley
Louise Haigh, Labour – 21,230 votes (55.2%)
Alexi Dimond, Green – 5,926 (15.4%)
Lorna Maginnis, Conservative – 5,242 (13.6%)
Rebecca Atkinson, Liberal Democrat – 3,863 (10.0%)
Helen Jackman, SDP – 711 (1.8%)
Steven Roy, Workers Party – 594 (1.5%)
Louise McDonald, Party of Women – 482 (1.3%)
Mick Suter, TUSC – 398 (1.0%)
Turnout: 52.4%
Sheffield South East
Clive Betts, Labour – 18,710 votes (52.3%)
Caroline Kampila, Conservative – 6,252 (17.5%)
Sophie Thornton, Liberal Democrats – 3,421 (9.6%)
Hannah Nicklin, Green – 3,158 (8.8%)
Jack Carrington, Independent – 1,716 (4.8%)
Muzafar Rahman, Workers Party – 1,453 (4.1%)
Matthew Leese, SDP – 1,061 (3.0%)
Turnout: 48.2%
