Amber Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

Amber Valley
County constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of Amber Valley in Derbyshire.

Outline map

Location of Derbyshire within England.
County Derbyshire
Population 87,883 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate 69,538 (December 2010)[2]
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of parliament Nigel Mills (Conservative)
Number of members One
Created from Belper, Derbyshire South East and Ilkeston[3]
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency East Midlands

Amber Valley is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nigel Mills of the Conservative Party.[n 2]

History

The constituency was created in 1983 and was held by the Conservative Phillip Oppenheim from its creation until Labour's Judy Mallaber won the seat in 1997. She was narrowly defeated in 2010 by Nigel Mills, a Conservative, who increased his majority in 2015.[4]

Boundaries

Boundaries of Amber Valley from 1997 to 2010

1983-1997: The District of Amber Valley wards of Aldercar, Alfreton East, Alfreton West, Codnor, Denby and Horsley Woodhouse, Heage and Ambergate, Heanor and Loscoe, Heanor East, Heanor West, Holbrook and Horsley, Kilburn, Riddings, Ripley, Ripley and Marehay, Shipley Park, Somercotes, Swanwick, and Wingfield, and the Borough of Erewash wards of Breadsall and Morley, Little Eaton, and Stanley.

1997-2010: The Borough of Amber Valley wards of Aldercar, Alfreton East, Alfreton West, Codnor, Crich, Denby and Horsley Woodhouse, Heage and Ambergate, Heanor and Loscoe, Heanor East, Heanor West, Holbrook and Horsley, Kilburn, Riddings, Ripley, Ripley and Marehay, Shipley Park, Somercotes, Swanwick, and Wingfield, and the Borough of Erewash wards of Breadsall and Morley, Little Eaton, and Stanley.

2010-present: The Borough of Amber Valley wards of Alfreton, Codnor and Waingroves, Heage and Ambergate, Heanor and Loscoe, Heanor East, Heanor West, Ironville and Riddings, Kilburn, Denby and Holbrook, Langley Mill and Aldercar, Ripley, Ripley and Marehay, Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse, Somercotes, Swanwick, and Wingfield.

Constituency profile

Amber Valley constituency covers the Derbyshire market and manufacturing towns of Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley, which in a majority of council elections from 1960-2012 been favourably disposed to the Labour Party. The constituency also has a considerable rural / suburban wards which in the same period have generally had a majority in support of the Conservative Party. The constituency stretches from the edge of the Peak District to the northern edge of Derby, which form another set of neighbourhoods more favourably disposed to the Conservatives.

Political control of Amber Valley District Council has not been with Labour since 1988 and has since 2000 been with local Conservatives who narrowly held on to it during their coalition with the Liberal Democrats in May 2012.

Despite swinging away from no overall control locally since 2000, the constituency's recent marginal majorities and bellwether status since 1983 (emulating the result by largest party nationally) means Amber Valley remains, on most common measures, a marginal seat.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[5]Party
1983 Phillip Oppenheim Conservative
1997 Judy Mallaber Labour
2010 Nigel Mills Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Amber Valley[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Nigel Mills [8] 20,106 44.0 +5.4
Labour Kevin Gillott [9] 15,901 34.8 -2.7
UKIP Stuart Bent 7,263 15.9 +13.9
Liberal Democrat Kate Smith 1,360 3.0 -11.5
Green John Devine [10] 1,087 2.4 +2.4
Majority 4,205 9.2
Turnout 45,717 65.1
Conservative hold Swing +4.05

Going into the 2015 general election, this was the 24th most marginal constituency in Great Britain, Labour requiring a swing from the Conservatives of 0.6% to take the seat (based on the result of the 2010 general election).[11]

General Election 2010: Amber Valley[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Nigel Mills 17,746 38.6 +4.7
Labour Judy Mallaber 17,210 37.4 −9.0
Liberal Democrat Tom Snowdon 6,636 14.4 +2.1
BNP Michael Clarke 3,195 7.0 +4.4
UKIP Sue Ransome 906 2.0 +0.3
Monster Raving Loony Sam Thing 265 0.6 N/A
Majority 536 1.2
Turnout 45,958 65.5 +1.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +6.9

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Amber Valley[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Judy Mallaber 21,593 45.6 −6.3
Conservative Gillian Shaw 16,318 34.4 −1.3
Liberal Democrat Kate Smith 6,225 13.1 +0.7
BNP Paul Snell 1,243 2.6 N/A
Veritas Alex Stevenson 1,224 2.6 N/A
UKIP Hugh Price 788 1.7 N/A
Majority 5,275 11.1 −5.1
Turnout 47,391 62.9 +2.6
Labour hold Swing −3.8
General Election 2001: Amber Valley[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Judy Mallaber 23,101 51.9 −2.8
Conservative Gillian Shaw 15,874 35.7 +2.2
Liberal Democrat Kate Smith 5,538 12.4 +4.7
Majority 7,227 16.2 −5.1
Turnout 44,513 60.3 −15.6
Labour hold Swing −2.5

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Amber Valley[15][16][17][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Judy Mallaber 29,943 54.7 +10.3
Conservative Phillip Oppenheim 18,330 33.4 −13.0
Liberal Democrat Roger Shelley 4,219 7.7 −1.4
Referendum Irene McGibbon 2,283 4.2 N/A
Majority 11,613 21.3 +19.2
Turnout 54,775 76.0 −8.7
Labour gain from Conservative Swing 11.7
General Election 1992: Amber Valley[19][20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Phillip Oppenheim 27,418 46.1 −5.3
Labour John Gordon Cooper 26,706 44.9 +10.6
Liberal Democrat Graham Brocklebank 5,294 8.9 −5.3
Majority 712 1.2 −15.9
Turnout 59,418 84.7 +3.5
Conservative hold Swing −7.9

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Amber Valley[21][22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Phillip Oppenheim 28,603 51.4 +9.7
Labour David Melvyn Bookbinder 19,103 34.4 −0.9
Liberal Stewart Reynolds 7,904 14.2 −7.1
Majority 9,500 17.1 +10.7
Turnout 68,478 81.2 +4.0
Conservative hold Swing +5.3
General Election 1983: Amber Valley[23][24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Phillip Oppenheim 21,502 41.7 N/A
Labour David Melvyn Bookbinder 18,184 35.3 N/A
Liberal Brian Murray Johnson 10,989 21.3 N/A
Independent Peter Franklyn Griffiths 856 1.7 N/A
Majority 3,318 6.4 N/A
Turnout 66,720 77.2 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

  1. ↑ "Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "'Amber Valley', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Majority Sorted Seats". electoralcalculus.co.uk.
  5. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 1)
  6. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000533
  8. ↑ "Political parties pick candidates in Amber Valley". Derby Telegraph.
  9. ↑ "The Labour Party". labour.org.uk.
  10. ↑ "General Election". Derbyshire Green Party.
  11. ↑ Ransome Mpini; Charlotte Thornton; John Walton; Marcelo Zanni (24 February 2014). "Election 2015: The political battleground". BBC News. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1997. Politics Resources. 1 May 1997. Retrieved 7 Jan 2011.
  17. ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.142 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
  18. ↑ The 1997 election result is calculated relative to the notional, not the actual, 1992 result.
  19. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  20. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
  21. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  22. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1987. Politics Resources. 11 June 1987. Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.
  23. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  24. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1983. Politics Resources. 9 June 1983. Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.

Coordinates: 53°02′N 1°24′W / 53.03°N 1.40°W / 53.03; -1.40

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