Brightside is the most working class of Sheffield's six seats and is held by the Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett.
At the time of the 1991 census, more than half the housing in this seat was still owned by the local authority - the highest figure in Sheffield, and indeed in the entire Yorkshire/Humberside region. The make-up of the seat is predominantly urban residential, although the blandness of the housing is relieved somewhat by the impressive views afforded from some of the city's seven hills. There is a little industry located on the eastern side of the seat, but unemployment here is twice above the national average.
Sheffield Wednesday's famous Hillsborough Football Stadium, (the scene of the 1989 tragedy), is located within this seat, rather than nearby Sheffield Hillsborough.