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Sheffield Hallam is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Olivia Blake of the Labour Party. [n 2]The Hallam seat was previously held by Nick Clegg, the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, until he was unseated by Labour in 2017.
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.
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 .
Blake was selected as the prospective Labour Party candidate for Sheffield Hallam in December 2018. [14] At the 2019 General Election, Blake was elected to Parliament as MP for Sheffield Hallam with 34.6% of the vote and a majority of 712.
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]
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough BC: 70,453 11,600 Gill Furniss‡ Christine Kubo♣ South Yorkshire: Sheffield Central BC: 60,777 8,286 Abtisam Mohamed‡ Angela Argenzio♣ South Yorkshire: Sheffield Hallam CC: 73,033 8,189 Olivia Blake‡ Shaffaq Mohammed¤ South Yorkshire: Sheffield Heeley BC: 73,359 15,304 Louise Haigh‡ Alexi Dimond♣
In the 2017 general election, Clegg was defeated in his constituency of Sheffield Hallam by Jared O'Mara of the Labour Party. [11] He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for political and public service.
Sheffield Hallam was the only parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire where the Conservative Party was a significant political force, the remaining seats being Labour safe seats or Liberal–Labour marginals. [4]