High Peak (UK Parliament constituency)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1980s 3.2 Elections in the 1990s 3.3 Elections in the 2000s 4 Sources 5 See also

[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

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Sidebottom	Conservative
	1900	Oswald Partington	Liberal
	December 1910	Samuel Hill-Wood	Conservative
	1929	Alfred Joseph Law	Conservative
	1939 by-election	Hugh Molson	Conservative
	1961 by-election	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] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: High Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Hawkins	24,534	46.4	−0.1
	Social Democrat	David Marquand	14,594	27.6	+10.7
	Labour	D.J. Wilcox	13,755	26.0	−10.6
Majority			9,940	18.8	+9.0
Turnout			52,883	78.5	−3.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: High Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Hawkins	25,715	45.67	−0.7
	Labour	J. McCrindle	16,199	28.8	+2.7
	Social Democrat	J. Oldham	14,389	25.6	−2.0
Majority			9,516	16.9	−1.9
Turnout			56,303	80.5	+2.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

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

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

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

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 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

[edit] Sources

• Guardian Unlimited Politics (Election results from 1992 to the present)
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page (Complete list of MPs)

[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)