West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Derbyshire County constituency
West Derbyshire shown within Derbyshire, and Derbyshire shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Patrick McLoughlin
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Derbyshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

West Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 4.1 Elections in the 2000s 4.2 Elections in the 1990s 4.3 Elections in the 1980s 5 Sources 6 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The only really safe Conservative seat in Derbyshire, consisting mostly of rural villages and tourist towns like Bakewell and Matlock; Labour's only strengths are in Wirksworth and Masson, not enough to end the long-standing Tory representation of this seat.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Derbyshire, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency of Derbyshire Dales based on the existing West Derbyshire constituency.

[edit] History

Aside from a six-year tenure in the post-second World War, this has been a Tory seat since 1923, although the Liberal Democrats came close to winning here in a 1986 by-election during a period of government mid-term unpopularity; they missed by barely 100 votes. It has been suggested that the relative success of the Labour candidate, William Moore, was responsible for taking votes that might otherwise have been cast for the Liberals, thus saving the Conservative incumbent's seat. There have been no problems in elections since; even with Labour landslides, the Tories have continued to win safely, and will probably do so in future.

[edit] Members of Parliament

The current Member of Parliament, since a by-election in 1986, is Patrick McLoughlin for the Conservative Party.

	Year	Member	Party
	1885	Lord Edward Cavendish	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1891	Victor Christian William Cavendish	Liberal Unionist
	1908	Earl of Kerry	Liberal Unionist
	1918	Charles Frederick White	Liberal
	1923	Marquess of Hartington	Conservative
	1938	Henry Philip Hunloke	Conservative
	1944	Charles Frederick White	Independent
	1950	Edward Wakefield	Conservative
	1962	Aidan Crawley	Conservative
	1967	James Scott-Hopkins	Conservative
	1979	Matthew Parris	Conservative
	1986	Patrick McLoughlin	Conservative

[edit] Elections

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	24,378	47.7	-0.3
	Labour	David Menon	13,625	26.6	-6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Ray Dring	11,408	22.3	+6.6
	UKIP	Michael Cruddas	1,322	2.6	+1.3
	Monster Raving Loony	"The Flying Brick" Delves	405	0.8	-0.1
	Independent (politician)	Martin Kyslun	5	0.0	N/A
Majority			10,753	21.0
Turnout				69.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.2

General Election 2001: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	24,280	48.0	+5.9
	Labour	Stephen Clamp	16,910	33.4	-0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Jeremy Beckett	7,922	15.7	-1.8
	UKIP	Stuart Bavester	672	1.3	+0.5
	Monster Raving Loony	"The Flying Brick" Delves	472	0.9	+0.4
	Independent (politician)	Robert Goodall	333	0.7	+0.5
Majority			7,370	14.6
Turnout			50,589	67.8	-10.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	23,945	42.1
	Labour	Stephen Clamp	19,060	33.5
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Seeley	9,940	17.5
	Referendum Party	J. Gouriet	2,499	4.4
	Independent Green	G. Meynell	593	1.0
	UKIP	H. Price	484	0.9
	Monster Raving Loony	"The Flying Brick" Delves	281	0.5
	Independent Back to Basics	Martin Kyslun	81	0.1
Majority			4,885
Turnout				78.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1992: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	32,879	54.3
	Liberal Democrats	David Fearn	14,110	23.3
	Labour	Stephen Clamp	13,528	22.4
Majority			18,769
Turnout				85.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	31,224	53.1
	Liberal	Chris Walmsley	20,697	35.2
	Labour	William Moore	6,875	11.7
Majority			10,527	17.9
Turnout				83.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Derbyshire by-election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick McLoughlin	19,896	39.5
	Liberal	Chris Walmsley	19,796	39.4
	Labour	William Moore	9,952	19.8
	Rainbow Dream Ticket	R. C. Sidwell	348	0.7
	Independent	R. Goodall	289	0.6
Majority			100	0.1
Turnout				71.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: West Derbyshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Parris	29,695	55.9
	Liberal	V. N. Bingham	14,370	27.0
	Labour	J. S. March	9,060	17.1
Majority			15,325	28.9
Turnout				77.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

[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)