County Derbyshire Electorate 69,538 (December 2010) European Parliament constituency East Midlands Number of members 1 | Population 87,883 (2011 census) Created 1983 Member of parliament Nigel Mills | |
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Created from Belper, Derbyshire South East and Ilkeston Replaced by Belper, South East Derbyshire, Ilkeston | ||
Amber Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nigel Mills of the Conservative Party.
Contents
- Map of Amber Valley District UK
- History
- Boundaries
- Constituency profile
- Elections in the 2010s
- References
Map of Amber Valley District, UK
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.
Boundaries
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.
Elections in the 2010s
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).