Yorkshire and The Humber · England · 70,389Boundary · 2023

Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough

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Apr 2026

A safe Lab seat, won with 52% of the vote in 2024. Centred on Sheffield. Population 111,138, notably young (median age 35 vs 41 nationally). Recorded crime is 58% above the national average. Median income £23K (below average).

Gill Furniss made her most significant parliamentary move in June 2025, voting against her party on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at every stage -- opposing the bill's third reading and two liberalising amendments, while backing two amendments that would have added further restrictions. Her stance placed her firmly among Labour MPs who opposed legalising assisted dying, a free-vote issue where conscience rather than party discipline applied. More recently she has drawn attention as chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Debt and Financial Inclusion, hosting a Westminster stakeholder roundtable in March 2026 bringing together debt charities and creditors to shape financial inclusion policy -- a role that maps directly onto cost-of-living pressures facing her Sheffield constituency.

At 74% voting participation, Furniss sits below the Commons average, though her 98% party alignment marks her as a reliable government loyalist on most issues. She votes consistently with Labour on taxation, the government budget, and crime -- sitting slightly tougher on crime than the average Labour MP and slightly less aligned on workers' rights and criminal justice reform. Her nine recent parliamentary contributions have spanned crime, social care, economy and jobs, and local government, suggesting a broad constituency brief rather than a single specialist focus.

345
Commons votes
This parliament
£23k
Median income
HMRC · 2024
70.4k
Electorate
2024 GE

Lab held for 6 consecutive elections.

Current Member of Parliament

Gill Furniss

Gill Furniss

Labour Party

Gill Furniss is the Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, and has been an MP continually since 5 May 2016.

Notable Votes

Vote on whether to prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under the assisted dying bill solely because they have chosen to stop eating and drinking. The amendment would close a potential loophole where a person who is not otherwise terminally ill could meet the bill's eligibility criteria by voluntarily starving themselves.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

Vote on whether to add a provision to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ensuring that if an independent doctor dies or becomes too ill to complete their assessment before signing off on an assisted dying request, a further referral can be made to another doctor — mirroring an existing provision in the Bill for the attending doctor.

MP voted YesAgainst party majority

Vote on an amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that would prevent someone from qualifying as 'terminally ill' under the Bill solely because they have voluntarily stopped eating and drinking. This matters because without the amendment, a person could potentially use voluntary starvation to meet the terminal illness threshold and access an assisted death.

MP voted NoAgainst party majority

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Voting at a Glance

A safe Lab seat, won with 52% of the vote in 2024. Centred on Sheffield. Population 111,138, notably young (median age 35 vs 41 nationally). Recorded crime is 58% above the national average. Median income £23K (below average).

2024 General Election

§ 06This week in Westminster.Live · today’s sittingOrder Paper · refreshed daily

Furniss’s scheduled Commons activity this week — whipped divisions, oral questions, debates — drawn from the House of Commons Order Paper.

§ 07The record, at a glance.383 divisions voted

Two readings of the same data. Issue volume shows where Furniss has cast the most ballots — a proxy for engagement, not direction. Notable votes are the moments where the whip was free or where they broke ranks.

Issue volume
Top issues by total divisions voted · cumulative this Parliament
Taxation
81
Economy
70
Crime & Policing
37
Employment
36
Education
29
Welfare and Benefits
27
Notable votes
Free votes and rebellions — moments the MP’s own judgment matters more than the whip
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 2420 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 1220 Jun 2025 · free vote
Aye
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Amendment 7720 Jun 2025 · free vote
No
§ 08The local picture.5 wards

Constituencies are not uniform. Below — the local council make-up, key facts worth knowing, and the neighbouring seats on either side.

WardCouncillorVotesParty
BurngreaveSafiya Saeed1,780Labour P
Firth ParkFran Belbin1,585Labour P
Firth ParkNikki Sarah Belfield1,605Labour P
HillsboroughChristine Gilligan Kubo2,726Green Pa
Shiregreen BrightsideMark Simon Rusling1,547Labour P
SoutheyGareth Edward Slater1,438Labour P
Population (2021 Census)
111,138
Electorate 70,389 · 2024 register
Median income
£23,200
HMRC SPI 2024
Households renting privately
17.7%
England average 20.0%
Schools
36
26 primary · 5 secondary
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