Ilkeston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ilkeston County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons

Ilkeston is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by one Member of Parliament. In 1983 it was abolished - together with South East Derbyshire - when the Derbyshire county constituencies were newly ordered and the constituencies of Amber Valley and Erewash were created and the constituency of South Derbyshire was re-created; the constituency of Bolsover was not abolished although it was created in 1950 together with South East Derbyshire.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1885)

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Watson	Liberal
	1887	Sir Balthazar Walter Foster	Liberal
	1910	John Edward Bernard Seely	Liberal
	1922	George Oliver	Labour
	1931	Abraham John Flint	National Labour
	1935	George Oliver	Labour
	1964	Leopold Raymond Fletcher	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

[edit] References

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.