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South Derbyshire
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of South Derbyshire in Derbyshire
Outline map
Location of Derbyshire within England
CountyDerbyshire
Electorate71,326 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlementsMelbourne, Swadlincote, Willington
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentHeather Wheeler (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created fromDerby North
Derby South
Belper
South East Derbyshire
1832–1950
Seats1832–1885: Two
1885–1950: One
Type of constituencyCounty constituency
Created fromDerbyshire

South Derbyshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Heather Wheeler, a Conservative.[n 2]

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Repton and Swadlincote, the Municipal Borough of Derby, the civil parish of Mercaston in the Sessional Division of Ashbourne, and part of the Sessional Division of Derby.

1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Alvaston and Boulton, Long Eaton, and Swadlincote, the Rural Districts of Hartshorne and Seals (the civil parishes of Calke, Hartshorne, Netherseal, Overseal, Smisby, The Boundary, Ticknall, and Woodville) and Shardlow (the civil parishes of Aston-upon-Trent, Barrow-upon-Trent, Breadsall, Breaston, Chaddesden, Chellaston, Dale Abbey, Derby Hills, Draycott and Church Wilne, Elvaston, Hopwell, Kirk Hallam, Little Eaton, Littleover, Melbourne, Normanton, Ockbrook, Osmaston, Risley, Sandiacre, Sawley and Wilsthorpe, Shardlow and Great Wilne, Sinfin and Arleston, Sinfin Moor, Spondon, Stanley, Stanton-by-Bridge, Stanton-by-Dale, Swarkestone, West Hallam, and Weston-upon-Trent), and in the Rural District of Repton the civil parishes of Caldwell, Castle Gresley, Catton, Coton in the Elms, Drakelow, Linton, Lullington, Rosliston, and Walton-upon-Trent.

1983-1997: The District of South Derbyshire, and the City of Derby wards of Boulton, Chellaston, and Mickleover.

1997-2010: The District of South Derbyshire, and the City of Derby wards of Boulton and Chellaston.

2010-present: The District of South Derbyshire (the wards of Aston, Church Gresley, Etwall, Hartshorne and Ticknall, Hatton, Hilton, Linton, Melbourne, Midway, Newhall and Stanton, North West, Repton, Seales, Stenson, Swadlincote, Willington and Findern, and Woodville).

Boundaries of South Derbyshire from 1997 to 2010

South Derbyshire constituency covers Derbyshire to the south of the city of Derby, forming a tapering salient surrounded by Staffordshire and Leicestershire.

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

The present constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Derby North, Derby South, Belper, and South East Derbyshire. When Parliament implemented the plans of the Boundary Commission's Fourth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies 1995 that came into effect for 1997, Mickleover ward was transferred to Derby South. Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, approved for the 2010 general election, the constituency shed the two City of Derby wards to become coterminous with its district.[n 3]

Constituency profile

This marginal constituency consists of rural and semi-rural settlements, including Repton (with its famous public school), in which a majority of voters have, in local elections since World War II, been Tory-voting, plus more historically industrial, and manufacturing-focussed settlements such as Swadlincote where the electorate has been for the most part Labour-voting.

Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, and very close to that of the Mid Derbyshire seat, at 1.9%. Also similar is the regionally lowest jobseeker seat of Derbyshire Dales, with only 1.5% of the population registered as jobseekers.[2]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Election First member[3] First party Second member[3] Second party
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | 1832 Hon. George Venables-Vernon Whig The Lord Waterpark Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" rowspan="2"| style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1835 Sir George Harpur Crewe, Bt Tory Sir Roger Gresley, Bt Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | 1837 Francis Hurt Tory
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" rowspan="3" | 1841 Edward Miller Mundy Conservative Charles Robert Colvile Peelite
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1849 by-election William Mundy Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="3" | 1857 William Evans Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1859 William Mundy Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1865 Charles Robert Colvile Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1868 Rowland Smith Conservative Sir Thomas Gresley, Bt Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | 1869 by-election Sir Henry Wilmot, Bt Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1874 William Evans Liberal
1885 radical boundary changes, reduced to one member

MPs 1885–1950

Election Member[3] Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1885 Henry Wardle Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1892 by-election Harrington Evans Broad Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1895 John Gretton Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1906 Sir Herbert Henry Raphael Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" | 1918 Henry Holman Gregory Coalition Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1922 Henry Dubs Lorimer Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1924 Sir James Augustus Grant Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1929 David Pole Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1931 Paul Emrys-Evans Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1945 Joe Champion Labour
1950 constituency abolished

MPs since 1983

Election Member[3] Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1983 Edwina Currie Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1997 Mark Todd Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 2010 Heather Wheeler Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: South Derbyshire[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Heather Wheeler 25,066 49.4 +3.9
Labour Cheryl Pidgeon[5] 13,595 26.8 −4.6
UKIP Alan Graves[6] 8,998 17.7 +15.3
Liberal Democrats Lorraine Johnson 1,887 3.7 −12.2
Green Marianne Bamkin[7] 1,216 2.4 +2.4
Majority 11,471 22.6
Turnout 68.2
Conservative hold Swing +4.25
General Election 2010: South Derbyshire[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Heather Wheeler 22,935 45.5 +8.1
Labour Michael Edwards 15,807 31.4 −11.5
Liberal Democrats Alexis Diouf 8,012 15.9 +3.0
BNP Peter Jarvis 2,193 4.3 +0.3
UKIP Charles Swabey 1,206 2.4 +2.4
Socialist Labour Paul Liversuch 266 0.5 +0.5
Majority 7,128 14.1
Turnout 50,419 71.4% +4.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +9.8

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: South Derbyshire[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mark Todd 24,823 44.5 −6.2
Conservative Simon Spencer 20,328 36.4 +0.8
Liberal Democrats Deborah Newton-Cook 7,600 13.6 +3.5
BNP 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 -3.5
General Election 2001: South Derbyshire[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mark Todd 26,338 50.7 −3.8
Conservative James Hakewill 18,487 35.6 +4.3
Liberal Democrats Russell Eagling 5,233 10.1 +1.1
UKIP 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 -4.1

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: South Derbyshire[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mark Todd 32,709 54.5 +10.5
Conservative Edwina Currie 18,742 31.3 −15.9
Liberal Democrats Rob Renold 5,408 9.0 +0.7
Referendum Richard A.E. North 2,491 4.2 N/A
UKIP I. E. Crompton 617 1.0 N/A
Majority 13,967 23.2
Turnout 78.2
Labour gain from Conservative Swing 13.2
General Election 1992: South Derbyshire[12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edwina Currie 34,266 48.7 −0.4
Labour Mark Todd 29,608 42.1 +8.8
Liberal Democrats Ms. DJ Brass 6,236 8.9 −8.8
Natural Law TW Mercer 291 0.4 +0.4
Majority 4,658 6.6 −9.2
Turnout 70,401 84.7 +3.4
Conservative hold Swing −4.6

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: South Derbyshire[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edwina Currie 31,927 49.1
Labour J. D. Whitby 21,616 33.2
SDP J. Edgar 11,509 17.7
Majority 10,311 15.9
Turnout 81.3
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: South Derbyshire[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edwina Currie 25,909 43.8 N/A
Labour Peter Anthony Kent 17,296 29.2 N/A
SDP Roderick MacFarquhar 15,959 27.0 N/A
Majority 8,613 14.6 N/A
Turnout 78.5 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

Election in the 1940s

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

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Derbyshire Southern
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans 31,321 51.53
Labour FAP Rowe 29,462 48.47
Majority 1,859 3.06
Turnout 73.55
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1931: South Derbyshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans 33,965 58.64
Labour Major David Pole 23,958 41.36
Majority 10,007 17.28
Turnout 82.34
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Derbyshire South [16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Graham Pole 25,101 47.4 +6.9
Unionist Sir James Augustus Grant 17,803 33.7 −10.6
Liberal Ebenezer Josiah Johnson 9,998 18.9 +3.7
Majority 7,298 13.7 17.5
Turnout 83.4 +1.5
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +8.7
1924 General Election: Derbyshire South [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist James Augustus Grant 16,448
Labour Alfred Goodere 15,033
Liberal Alfred Jesse Suenson-Taylor 5,647
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing
1923 General Election: Derbyshire South [18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Henry Dubs Lorimer 12,902 38.5 −4.1
Labour Alfred Goodere 10,919 32.7 +3.1
Liberal Gilbert Stone 9,620 28.8 +1.0
Majority 5.8 −7.2
Turnout 75.7 −4.1
Unionist hold Swing -3.6

Elections in the 1910s

Herbert Raphael
General Election December 1910 South Derbyshire[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Henry Raphael 7,744 51.2 −1.3
Liberal Unionist John Bertram Marsden-Smedley 7,373 48.8 +1.3
Majority 371 2.4 −2.6
Turnout 87.0 −3.6
Liberal hold Swing -1.3
General Election January 1910 South Derbyshire[19] Electorate 17,368
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Henry Raphael 8,259 52.5 −2.7
Conservative John Bertram Marsden-Smedley 7,473 47.5 +2.7
Majority 786 5.0 −5.4
Turnout 90.6 +2.2
Liberal hold Swing -2.7

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1906 South Derbyshire[19] Electorate 16,326
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Herbert Henry Raphael 7,961 55.2
Conservative John Gretton 6,468 44.8
Majority 1,493 10.4
Turnout 88.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
  3. ^ Boulton and Chellaston wards were transferred to Derby South, and Mickleover ward, herein from 1983 to 1997, was transferred from Derby South to Derby North.
References
  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  2. ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
  3. ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)
  4. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  5. ^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/derbyshire-south-2015.html
  6. ^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/derbyshire-south-2015.html
  7. ^ Marianne Bamkin, Wikimedia Commons, retrieved 10 April 2015
  8. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)
  9. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  12. ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  13. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
  14. ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  17. ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
  18. ^ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
  19. ^ a b c British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

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