This constituency has a moderate Labour majority and contains a mixture of urban areas, in 2010 the BNP unusually in Britain achieved more than the 5% deposit threshold share of the vote, however only 5.5% of the vote, a record in Sheffield.
The constituency consists of Census Output Areas a local government districts with: a working population whose income is marginally below the national average and that has close to average reliance upon social housing [REF].