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Sheffield Hallam is the only constituency in South Yorkshire that has not been a Labour stronghold, returning a Labour MP for the first time in 2017. In 2004 it had been regarded as the wealthiest constituency in the north of England [ 6 ] and, apart from a brief period between 1916 and 1918, when it was taken by the Liberals , it was a safe ...
Polling stations in 650 constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland opened at 7am this morning. When the polls close in 15 hours, counting will begin straight away.
Sheffield Hallam was the only non-Labour South Yorkshire seat for many years, and was held by Nick Clegg for 12 years, until Labour gained the seat in 2017. For a 22-year period spanning 1997–2019, the Conservatives had no seats in South Yorkshire, until the 2019 election , when they gained three.
Mohammed was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the Sheffield Central constituency in the 2017 general election, coming fourth with 5.1% of the vote. [10] Mohammed was selected in 2023 to contest former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's seat of Sheffield Hallam at the 2024 general election. [3]
Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966) is a British politician. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from 1997 to 2005. He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours .
Reform finished in third place in terms of votes in East of England, North East England (just 0.4% behind the Conservatives), North West England, East Midlands, West Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber. Most of the seats where Reform UK came second were in England, particularly in the north behind Labour and ahead of the Conservatives.
Polls of individual constituencies are expensive compared to national polling and were previously an infrequent practice in the UK. However, a large number of individual constituency polls were carried out in this period, most commissioned from independent polling providers by Michael Ashcroft , a Conservative peer and sponsor.
Leader Nick Clegg, who saw his nearly 30-point majority in Sheffield Hallam massively reduced to 4.2%, resigned on the morning of the election results. [ 5 ] UKIP made large gains in the percentage of votes, but failed to retain Rochester and Strood or take any other seats, leading to the resignation of party leader Nigel Farage .