WEST DERBYSHIRE (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

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

Contents

Boundaries

Boundary review

History

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

Sources

See also

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.

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.

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.

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 Labour
	1945		Labour
	1950	Edward Wakefield	Conservative
	1962	Aidan Crawley	Conservative
	1967	James Scott-Hopkins	Conservative
	1979	Matthew Parris	Conservative
	1986	Patrick McLoughlin	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

At the 1931 and 1935 UK general elections, Edward Cavendish was elected unopposed.

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