Boundary Changes

Do you know your MP?
Have you been your representative for years?
They may not even be a candidate for your vote at the next election, even before any question about them being returned to parliament is decided. Firstly they may not be standing again, like Richard Caborn, who has decided to retire and I will be putting pages up with the candidates later on (you can find out most of the selected candidates for the main parties, but I prefer to wait for the official nomination process). The other reason is that the Boundary Commission for England has redrawn the constituencies in Sheffield. For the dry official document outlining the changes you can download it as a pdf from www.official-documents.gov.uk. You can also use www.election-maps.co.uk from the Ordnance Survey to look up the new Parliamentary boundaries; unfortunately you can’t do a postcode search on this site, you will need to search for your existing constituency, find your house on the map then using the ‘Show Layers’ tab overlay the new borders. I haven't yet found anyone who has a postcode lookup service for the new constituencies, if you know of one please add it to the comments. Below are links to the wikipedia pages for each of the seats as they will be at the election, from there you can find links to other information such as notional results for the 2005 elections as if these seats existed.

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough - Burngreave, Firth Park, Hillsborough, Shiregreen & Brightside and Southey wards
Sheffield Central - Broomhill, Central, Manor Castle, Nether Edge and Walkley wards
Sheffield, Hallam - Crookes, Dore & Totley, Ecclesall, Fulwood and Stannington wards
Sheffield, Heeley - Arbourthorne, Beauchief & Greenhill, Gleadless Valley, Graves Park and Richmond wards
Sheffield South East - Beighton, Birley, Darnall, Mosborough and Woodhouse wards
Penistone and Stocksbridge - East Ecclesfield, Stocksbridge & Upper Don and West Ecclesfield wards (and Dodworth, Penistone East and Penistone West from Barnsley)