CHESTERFIELD (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Chesterfield' is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a marginal seat between the Liberal Democrats and Labour.

Contents

Boundaries

History

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

Sources

See also

Boundaries

It includes most of the town of Chesterfield and neighbours the Bolsover and North East Derbyshire constituencies.

History

The constituency was long a Labour stronghold,with strong associations with the nearby Yorkshire city of Sheffield, but following veteran left-wing firebrand Tony Benn stepping down,it surprised many when it became the Liberal Democrats' first seat in the East Midlands in the 2001 General Election.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1885	Alfred Barnes	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1892	Thomas Bayley	Liberal
	1906	James Haslam	Lib-Lab
	1910		Labour
	1913	Barnet Kenyon	Lib-Lab
	1914		Labour
	1929	George Benson	Labour
	1931	Roger Conant	Conservative
	1935	George Benson	Labour
	1964	Eric Varley	Labour
	1984	Tony Benn	Labour
	2001	Paul Holmes	Liberal Democrat

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

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)

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire