High Peak (UK Parliament constituency)

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High Peak
County constituency

High Peak shown within Derbyshire, and Derbyshire shown within England
Created: 1885
MP: Tom Levitt
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Derbyshire
EP constituency: East Midlands

High Peak is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers much of northern Derbyshire. Areas around the Hope Valley have a Conservative majority, whereas the north western part of the constituency, in Glossop (especially Gamesley), Hadfield and Tintwistle, is more Labour-inclined. Buxton is often divided between the two main parties. The seat has considerable connections with Manchester (and the Hope Valley with Sheffield), rather than the East Midlands. Before the 1997 general election, Labour had only gained this seat once, in 1966. They have now held it for three consecutive general elections. Tintwistle (formerly in the Stalybridge and Hyde seat) was brought into High Peak in boundary changes for the 1983 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 William Sidebottom Conservative
1900 Oswald Partington Liberal
1910 Samuel Hill-Wood Conservative
1929 Alfred Joseph Law Conservative
1939 Hugh Molson Conservative
1961 David Walder Conservative
1966 Peter Michael Jackson Labour
1970 Spencer Le Marchant Conservative
1983 Christopher Hawkins Conservative
1992 Charles Hendry Conservative
1997 Tom Levitt Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: High Peak
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Levitt 19,809 39.6 -7.0
Conservative Andrew Bingham 19,074 38.2 +0.9
Liberal Democrats Marc Godwin 10,000 20.0 +3.9
UK Independence Michael Schwarz 1,106 2.2 N/A
Majority 735 1.5%
Turnout 66.4
Labour hold Swing -3.9
General Election 2001: High Peak
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Levitt 22,430 46.6 -4.2
Conservative Simon Chapman 17,941 37.3 +1.8
Liberal Democrats Peter Ashenden 7,743 16.1 +4.9
Majority 4,489 9.3
Turnout 48,114 65.2 -13.7
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1997: High Peak
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Levitt 29,052 50.8
Conservative Charles Hendry 20,261 35.5
Liberal Democrats Sue Barber 6,420 11.2
Referendum Party C. Hanson-Orr 1,420 2.5
Majority 8,791
Turnout 79.0
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1992: High Peak
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles Hendry 27,538 46.0
Labour Tom Levitt 22,719 37.9
Liberal Democrats Simon Molloy 8,861 14.8
Green R. Floyd 794 1.3
Majority 4,819
Turnout 84.6
Conservative hold Swing

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Constituencies in the East Midlands
Labour

Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Bolsover | Broxtowe | Corby | Derby North | Derby South | Erewash | Gedling | 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 | Grantham and Stamford | 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) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)