South Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Derbyshire County constituency
South Derbyshire shown within Derbyshire, and Derbyshire shown within England
Created:	1832, 1983
MP:	Mark Todd
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Derbyshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

South Derbyshire is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1832 - 1885 (2 MPs) 2.2 1885 - 1950 (1 MP) 2.3 1983 to present 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 2000s 3.2 Elections in the 1990s 3.3 Elections in the 1980s 3.4 Elections in the 1940s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

South Derbyshire constituency covers parts of Derbyshire to the south of the city of Derby. When it was created, the largest part of the new constituency came from the former Belper constituency (not including the eponymous town of Belper), with smaller parts from Derby South, South East Derbyshire, and Derby North.

The constituency was originally created after the Reform Act in 1832 when Derbyshire was divided into North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire.

The constituency was recreated in 1983 from parts of the seats of Derby North, Derby South, Belper, and Derbyshire South East. It was now made up of the District of South Derbyshire, with three wards from the City of Derby (Boulton, Chellaston and Mickleover). In a Boundary Commission report issued in 1995 that came into effect at the 1997 general election, the Mickleover ward was removed to Derby South.

The constituency formally included the South Derbyshire borough with the addition of the city of Derby wards of Boulton, and Chellaston. Following the January 2007 border changes, South Derbyshire loses these Derby wards to become co-terminous with its district.

Once held by Edwina Currie until she lost the seat in Labour's landslide of 1997, it is a marginal consisting of semi-rural villages, including Repton (with its famous public school), that are Tory-voting, plus industrial towns such as Swadlincote that support Labour.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] 1832 - 1885 (2 MPs)

• Constituency created (1832)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Hon. George Venables-Vernon	Whig	The Lord Waterpark	Whig
		1835	Sir George Harpur Crewe, Bt	Tory	Sir Roger Gresley, Bt	Tory
		1837			Francis Hurt	Tory
		1841	Edward Miller Mundy	Conservative	Charles Robert Colvile	Peelite
		1849	William Mundy	Conservative
		1857	Thomas William Evans	Liberal
		1859			William Mundy	Conservative
		1865			Charles Robert Colvile	Liberal
		1868	Rowland Smith	Conservative	Sir Thomas Gresley, Bt	Conservative
		1869			Sir Henry Wilmot, Bt	Conservative
		1874	Thomas William Evans	Liberal

• Constituency reduced in parliament (1885)

[edit] 1885 - 1950 (1 MP)

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Henry Wardle	Liberal
	1892	Harrington Evans Broad	Liberal
	1895	John Gretton	Conservative
	1906	Sir Herbert Henry Raphael	Liberal
	1918	Henry Holman Gregory	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Henry Dubs Lorimer	Conservative
	1924	Sir James Augustus Grant	Conservative
	1929	David Pole	Labour
	1931	Paul Emrys-Evans	Conservative
	1945	Arthur Champion	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] 1983 to present

Election		Member	Party
1983		constituency recreated
	1983	Edwina Currie	Conservative
	1997	Mark Todd	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Alexis Diouf
	Labour	Mike Edwards
	Conservative	Heather Wheeler

General Election 2005: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Todd	24,823	44.5	−6.2
	Conservative	Simon Spencer	20,328	36.4	+0.8
	Liberal Democrat	Deborah Newton-Cook	7,600	13.6	+3.5
	British National	David Joines	1,797	3.2	N/A
	Veritas	Edward Spalton	1,272	2.3	N/A
Majority			4,495	8.1
Turnout			55,820	65.6	+1.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Todd	26,338	50.7	-3.8
	Conservative	James Hakewill	18,487	35.6	+4.3
	Liberal Democrat	Russell Eagling	5,233	10.1	+1.1
	UK Independence	John Blunt	1,074	2.1	+1.1
	Socialist Labour	Paul Liversuch	564	1.1
	Independent	James Taylor	249	0.5
Majority			7,851	15.1
Turnout			51,945	64.1	-14.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Todd	32,709	54.5	+10.5
	Conservative	Edwina Currie	18,742	31.3	-15.9
	Liberal Democrat	Rob Renold	5,408	9.0	+0.7
	Referendum Party	R. A. E. North	2,491	4.2	N/A
	UK Independence	I. E. Crompton	617	1.0	N/A
Majority			13,967	23.2
Turnout				78.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edwina Currie	34,266	48.7
	Labour	Mark Todd	29,608	42.1
	Liberal Democrat	D. Brass	6,236	8.9
	Natural Law	T. Mercer	291	0.4	N/A
Majority			4,658	6.6
Turnout				85.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edwina Currie	31,927	49.1
	Labour	J. D. Whitby	21,616	33.2
	Social Democrat	J. Edgar	11,509	17.7
Majority			10,311	15.9
Turnout				81.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edwina Currie	25,909	43.8	N/A
	Labour	P. Kent	17,296	29.2	N/A
	Social Democrat	Roderick MacFarquhar	15,959	27.0	N/A
Majority			8,613	14.6	N/A
Turnout				78.5	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: South Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Champion	47,586	57.7
	Conservative	Paul Emrys-Evans	24,636	29.9
	Liberal	N. Heathcote	10,255	12.4
Majority			22,950	27.8	N/A
Turnout			82,477		N/A
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

v • d • e Constituencies in the East Midlands Labour Amber Valley · Ashfield · Bassetlaw · Bolsover · Broxtowe · Corby · Derby North · Derby South · Erewash · Gedling · Grantham and Stamford · High Peak · Leicester East · Leicester South · Leicester West · Lincoln · Loughborough · Mansfield · Northampton North · North East Derbyshire · North West Leicestershire · Nottingham East · Nottingham North · Nottingham South · Sherwood · South Derbyshire Conservative Blaby · Boston and Skegness · Bosworth · Charnwood · Daventry · Gainsborough · Harborough · Kettering · Louth and Horncastle · Newark · Northampton South · Rushcliffe · Rutland and Melton · Sleaford and North Hykeham · South Holland and The Deepings · Wellingborough · West Derbyshire Liberal Democrat Chesterfield East Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) · Labour (1) · UKIP (1) · Liberal Democrats (1)

[edit] References

1. ^ [1], UKPollingReport

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