Derby (UK Parliament constituency)

History

Derby regularly sent two representatives to Parliament from Edward I's reign. In 1900 it was one of the first two constituencies to elect a member from the then newly formed Labour Party, along with Merthyr Tydfil.

In 1950 the constituency was abolished and replaced by the two single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the municipal borough of Derby as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.

Members of Parliament

1294–1640

1640–1950

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors =

|reg. electors =

|reg. electors = 1,384

|reg. electors = 1,478

|reg. electors = 1,751

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 1,906

Strutt was appointed Chief Commissioner of Railways, requiring a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,022

Ponsonby succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl of Bessborough, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,177

The election was declared void on petition due to bribery and treating by Strutt's and Leveson-Gower's agents, and the writ suspended in March 1848, later causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,177

Elections in the 1850s

|reg. electors = 2,448

Horsfall's election was in March 1853 declared void due to bribery, and Heyworth was declared elected in his place.

|reg. electors = 2,479

|reg. electors = 2,513

Elections in the 1860s

|reg. electors = 2,450

|reg. electors = 9,777

Elections in the 1870s

|reg. electors = 11,316

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 13,006

Plimsoll's resignation caused a by-election.

Bass' resignation caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 14,925

Harcourt's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 14,925

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 15,754

Harcourt's appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer requires a by-election.

|reg. electors = 15,754

|reg. electors = 17,379

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 18,270 |reg. electors = 19,543

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 20,113 |reg. electors = 20,113

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: Raymond Asquith
• Labour: J. H. Thomas
• Unionist: Arthur Edward Beck

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place in Autumn 1939 and by then, the following candidates had been selected;

• Labour: Philip Noel-Baker and A E Hunter
• Conservative: P C Cooper-Parry
• National Labour: Archibald Church

References

Notes References

• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125310/http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=p-000-00---0modhis06--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&cl=CL1

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