List of parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

Last updated August 19, 2024

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. Since the 2024 general election, all eleven constituencies have been represented by members of the Labour Party.

Constituencies

† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Reform

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
Amber Valley CC	70,625	3,554	Linsey Farnsworth ‡	Alex Stevenson ¤
Bolsover CC	74,680	6,323	Natalie Fleet ‡	Mark Fletcher †
Chesterfield BC	70,722	10,820	Toby Perkins ‡	Ben Flook †
Derby North BC	71,867	8,915	Catherine Atkinson ‡	Amanda Solloway †
Derby South BC	72,067	6,002	Baggy Shanker ‡	Alan Graves ¤
Derbyshire Dales CC	71,435	350	John Whitby ‡	Sarah Dines †
Erewash CC	71,986	5,859	Adam Thompson ‡	Maggie Throup †
High Peak CC	73,960	7,908	Jon Pearce ‡	Robert Largan †
Mid Derbyshire CC	70,085	1,878	Jonathan Davies ‡	Luke Gardiner †
North East Derbyshire CC	72,344	1,753	Louise Jones ‡	Lee Rowley †
South Derbyshire CC	71,202	4,168	Samantha Niblett ‡	Heather Wheeler †

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.^[3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final recommendations were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission proposed retaining the eleven 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.^[4] These changes came into effect from the 2024 general election.

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

Erewash
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

Results history

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

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Derbyshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:^[2]

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Labour	195,568	40.1%	5.4%	11	9
Conservative	133,262	27.3%	25.0%	0	9
Reform UK	94,292	19.3%	16.6%	0
Green	30,338	6.2%	3.6%	0
Liberal Democrats	24,897	5.1%	2.1%	0
Workers	5,603	1.1%	New	0
Others	3,498	0.7%	0.2%	0
Total	487,458	100.0		11

Percentage votes

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
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	40.1
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	27.3
Reform ¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.7	19.1
Green Party	-	-		-	*	*	*	*	*	0.6	2.8	1.2	2.6	6.2
Liberal Democrat ²	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	5.1
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	3.2	15.4	1.6	*	-
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	1.8

¹As the Brexit Party in 2019

²1974 &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	2024
Labour	7	7	6	4	4	4	9	8	8	5	4	5	2	11
Conservative	3	3	4	6	6	6	1	1	1	6	7	6	9	0
Liberal Democrat ¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Total	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11

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

Maps

1885-1910

1885
1886
1892
1895
1900
1906
Jan 1910
Dec 1910

1918-1945

1918
1922
1923
1924
1929
1931
1935
1945

1950-1979

1950
1951
1955
1959
1964
1966
1970
1974 Feb
1974 Oct
1979

1983-present

1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
2024

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	2024
Chesterfield	Varley	Benn					Holmes		Perkins
Derby South	Beckett													Shanker
Bolsover	Skinner												Fletcher	Fleet
Derbyshire North East	Ellis			Barnes				Engel			Rowley			Jones
Derby North	Knight					Laxton			Williamson	Solloway	Williamson	→	Solloway	Atkinson
Amber Valley	Oppenheim					Mallaber			Mills					Farnsworth
South Derbyshire	Currie					Todd			Wheeler					Niblett
Erewash	Rost				Knight	Blackman			Lee	Throup				Thompson
High Peak	Hawkins				Hendry	Levitt			Bingham		George		Largan	Pearce
W Derbyshire / D'shire Dales ('10)	Parris		McLoughlin										Dines	Whitby
Mid Derbyshire									Latham					Davies

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

↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - East Midlands". Boundary Commission for England . Retrieved 9 July 2024.
1 2 3 4 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
↑ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
↑ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 82-89. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
↑ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "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] "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - East Midlands". Boundary Commission for England . Retrieved 9 July 2024.

[:0-3] 1 2 3 4 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.

[5] "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

[6] "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 82-89. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

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

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