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.
History
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.
Members of Parliament
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]
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).
^ a b cThe Poll Book; containing a correct list of the electors who polled; distinguishing the candidates for whom they voted; also the names of the registered voters who did not poll in the first election of members for the Borough of Sheffield, December 13 and 14, 1832. Sheffield: Whitaker & Co. 1833. pp. 36–37.
^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
^ a b"State of Polls". Carlisle Patriot. 10 July 1852. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^White, Alan (1988). "Class, culture and control: the Sheffield Athenaeum movement and the middle class". In Wolff, Janet; Seed, John (eds.). The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteen-Century Middle Class. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 96. ISBN0-7190-2460-9. LCCN 88-10982. Retrieved 8 July 2018 – via Google Books.
^ a b c d e f g hStooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 169. Retrieved 1 December 2018 – via Google Books.
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^Churton, Edward (1836). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838. p. 29. Retrieved 1 December 2018 – via Google Books.
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^King, Andrew (2017). The London Journal, 1845-83: Periodicals, Production and Gender. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 78. ISBN978-0-7546-3343-3. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
^"Protestants of Great Britain". Nottingham Journal. 21 July 1837. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o pCraig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 273–274. ISBN978-1-349-02349-3.
^"Letter from London". Cheltenham Chronicle. 10 February 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Allott's Nomination". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. 3 February 1874. p. 8. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"The Sheffield Election". Bradford Observer. 9 October 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 17 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.