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 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 from 1983 3 Election results 4 See also

[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.

When initially created the constituency was 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.

Once held by the voluble 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

This page incorporates information from 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 John Venables-Vernon		Hon. Henry Manners Cavendish
		1835	Sir George Harpur Crewe		Sir Roger Gresley
		1837			Francis Hurt
		1841	Edward Miller Mundy		Charles Robert Colvile
		1849	William Mundy
		1857	Thomas William Evans
		1859			William Mundy
		1865			Charles Robert Colvile
		1868	Rowland Smith		Sir Thomas Gresley
		1869			Sir Henry Sacheverell Wilmot
		1874	Thomas William Evans

• Constituency reduced in parliament (1885)

[edit] 1885 - 1950 (1 MP)

Year	Member	Party
1885	Henry Wardle
1892	Harrington Evans Broad
1895	John Gretton	Conservative
1906	Sir Herbert Henry Raphael
1918	Henry Holman Gregory
1922	Henry Dubs Lorimer
1924	Sir James Augustus Grant
1929	David Graham Pole
1931	Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans
1945	Arthur Joseph Champion

• Constituency abolished (1950)

[edit] from 1983

• Constituency recreated (1983)

• 1983 – 1997: Edwina Currie, Conservative
• 1997 – present: Mark Todd, Labour

[edit] Election results

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 Democrats	Deborah Newton-Cook	7,600	13.6	+3.5
	British National	David Joines	1,797	3.2	N/A
	UK Independence	Kenneth Perkins	1,272	2.3	+0.2
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 Democrats	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 (politician)	James Taylor	249	0.5
Majority			7,851	15.1
Turnout			51,945	64.1	-14.1
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

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)