List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

Last updated April 04, 2022

The ceremonial county of Derbyshire (which includes the unitary authority of Derby) is divided into 11 Parliamentary constituencies: three Borough constituencies and eight County constituencies.

Constituencies

† Conservative ‡ Labour

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
Amber Valley CC	69,976	16,886	Nigel Mills†	Adam Thompson‡
Bolsover CC	75,161	5,299	Mark Fletcher†	Dennis Skinner‡
Chesterfield BC	71,034	1,451	Toby Perkins‡	Leigh Higgins†
Derby North BC	73,199	2,540	Amanda Solloway†	Tony Tinley‡
Derby South BC	73,062	6,019	Margaret Beckett‡	Ed Barker†
Derbyshire Dales CC	65,080	17,381	Sarah Dines†	Claire Raw‡
Erewash CC	72,523	10,606	Maggie Throup†	Catherine Atkinson‡
High Peak CC	74,265	590	Robert Largan†	Ruth George‡
Mid Derbyshire CC	67,442	15,385	Pauline Latham†	Alison Martin‡
North East Derbyshire CC	72,345	12,876	Lee Rowley†	Chris Peace‡
South Derbyshire CC	79,331	19,335	Heather Wheeler†	Robert Pearson‡

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered Derbyshire from 10 to 11, with the re-establishment of Mid Derbyshire. As a consequence of resulting boundary changes, West Derbyshire was renamed Derbyshire Dales.

Former name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Current name	Boundaries 2010–present
Amber Valley CC Bolsover CC Chesterfield BC Derby North BC Derby South BC Erewash CC High Peak CC North East Derbyshire CC South Derbyshire CC West Derbyshire CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire	Amber Valley CC Bolsover CC Chesterfield BC Derby North BC Derby South BC Derbyshire Dales CC Erewash CC High Peak CC Mid Derbyshire CC North East Derbyshire CC South Derbyshire CC	Proposed Revised constituencies in Derbyshire

Proposed boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021.^[3]

The commission has proposed retaining the current number of constituencies in Derbyshire, as detailed below, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to electoral wards within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range. Although Erewash is unchanged, it is proposed that it is renamed Ilkeston and Long Eaton.^[4]

Containing electoral wards from Amber Valley

Containing electoral wards from Bolsover

Bolsover (part)

Containing electoral wards from Chesterfield

Chesterfield
North East Derbyshire (part)

Containing electoral wards from Derby

Derby North
Derby South
Mid Derbyshire (part)

Containing electoral wards from Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire Dales (part)

Containing electoral wards from Erewash

Ilkeston and Long Eaton
Mid Derbyshire (part)

Containing electoral wards from High Peak

High Peak

Containing electoral wards from North East Derbyshire

Bolsover (part)
North East Derbyshire (part)

Containing electoral wards from South Derbyshire

Derbyshire Dales (part)
South Derbyshire

Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[5]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Derbyshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	277,723	52.3%	3.6%	9	3
Labour	184,295	34.7%	9.8%	2	3
Liberal Democrats	38,253	7.2%	3.4%	0	0
Green	13,658	2.6%	1.4%	0	0
Brexit	14,487	2.7%	new	0	0
Others	2,711	0.5%	1.3%	0	0
Total	531,127	100.0		11

Percentage votes

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	37.5	33.9	40.9	41.5	43.2	41.5	29.5	31.1	30.1	36.5	39.4	48.7	52.3
Labour	47.6	48.4	45.6	34.9	36.2	43.4	53.6	50.0	43.9	34.5	36.5	44.5	34.7
Liberal Democrat ¹	14.8	17.5	13.0	22.6	20.5	14.7	13.8	17.5	21.4	21.6	5.6	3.8	7.2
Green Party	-	-		-	*	*	*	*	*	0.6	2.8	1.2	2.6
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	3.2	15.4	1.6	*
Brexit Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.7
Other	-	0.2	0.5	1.0	0.1	0.4	3.1	1.4	4.6	3.7	0.2	0.2	0.5

¹1974 &1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	3	3	4	6	6	6	1	1	1	6	7	6	9
Labour	7	7	6	4	4	4	9	8	8	5	4	5	2
Liberal Democrat ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Total	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11

¹1974 &1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

1974 Feb
1974 Oct
1979
1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019

Historical representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist

Constituency	1885	1886	87	91	92	1892	1895	1900	04	1906	07	08	09	Jan 1910	10	Dec 1910	12	13	14	14	15	16
Chesterfield	Barnes	→				Bayley				Haslam				→				Kenyon
Derby	Roe						Bemrose	Roe														Collins
Derby	Vernon-Harcourt						Drage	Bell	→					Thomas
Derbyshire Mid	Jacoby												Hancock								→
Derbyshire North East	Egerton	Bolton									Harvey			→					→	Bowden
Derbyshire South	Wardle				Broad		Gretton			Raphael
Derbyshire West	E. Cavendish	→		V. Cavendish								Petty-FitzMaurice					→
High Peak	Sidebottom							Partington								Hill-Wood
Ilkeston	Watson		Foster												Seely

1918 to 1950

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Labour Labour Liberal National Labour

Constituency	1918	1922	1923	1924	1929	31	1931	33	1935	36	38	39	42	44	1945
Clay Cross	Broad	Duncan						Henderson	Holland	Ridley				Neal
Ilkeston	Seely	Oliver					Flint		Oliver
Derbyshire North East	Holmes	Lee					Whyte		Lee				H. White
Chesterfield	Kenyon				Benson		Conant		Benson
Derby	Thomas					→				Noel-Baker
Derby	Green	Roberts	Raynes	Luce	Raynes		Reid								Wilcock
Belper	Hancock		Wragg		Lees		Wragg								Brown
Derbyshire South	Gregory	Lorimer		Grant	Pole		Emrys-Evans								Champion
Derbyshire West	C. White		E. W. Cavendish								Hunloke			C. White jnr	→
High Peak	Hill-Wood				Law							Molson

1950 to 1983

Conservative Labour

Constituency	1950	1959	61	62	1964	1966	67	1970	Feb 1974	1979
Chesterfield	Benson				Varley
Derby South	Noel-Baker							Johnson
Bolsover	Neal							Skinner
Derbyshire North East	White	Swain								Ellis
Derby North	Wilcock			MacDermot				Whitehead
Ilkeston	Oliver				Fletcher
Belper	Brown							Stewart-Smith	MacFarquhar	Faith
South East Derbyshire	Champion	J. Jackson			Park			Rost
High Peak	Molson		Walder			P. Jackson		Le Marchant
West Derbyshire	Wakefield			Crawley			Scott-Hopkins			Parris

1983 to present

Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1983	84	86	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	19	2019
Chesterfield	Varley	Benn					Holmes		Perkins
Derby South	Beckett
Bolsover	Skinner												Fletcher
Derbyshire North East	Ellis			Barnes				Engel			Rowley
Derby North	Knight					Laxton			Williamson	Solloway	Williamson	→	Solloway
Amber Valley	Oppenheim					Mallaber			Mills
South Derbyshire	Currie					Todd			Wheeler
Erewash	Rost				Knight	Blackman			Lee	Throup
High Peak	Hawkins				Hendry	Levitt			Bingham		George		Largan
W Derbyshire / Derbyshire Dales (2010)	Parris		McLoughlin										Dines
Mid Derbyshire									Latham

Notes

↑ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
↑ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

↑ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
↑ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
↑ 2023 review - East Midlands Boundary Commission for England
↑ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[4] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[2] Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[:0-3] 1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-22.

[5] "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.

[6] 2023 review - East Midlands Boundary Commission for England

[7] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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