 With the other MFGB sponsored MPs, Wadsworth transferred to the Labour Party in 1909.The constituency covered an area north and west of inner Sheffield.On its creation in 1885 it was defined as containing the Municipal Borough of Sheffield, and the Parishes of Bradfield, Ecclesfield, Wath-upon-Dearne, Brampton Bierlow, Wentworth, Handsworth, Tankersley, Nether Hoyland, and Wortley.