East Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Derbyshire was a parliamentary constituency in Derbyshire which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain and subsequently to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

East Derbyshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1868–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire
Created from	North Derbyshire

It was created for the 1868 general election, and abolished only seventeen years later under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was then replaced by seven new constituencies: Chesterfield, Mid Derbyshire, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire, West Derbyshire, High Peak and Ilkeston.

Boundaries

1868–1885: The Hundred of Scarsdale.[1]

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1868		Francis Egerton	Liberal		Henry Strutt	Liberal
1874					Francis Arkwright	Conservative
1880					Alfred Barnes	Liberal
1885	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: East Derbyshire[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Egerton	2,089	25.8
	Liberal	Henry Strutt	2,032	25.1
	Conservative	William Gladwin Turbutt	1,999	24.7
	Conservative	William Overend[3]	1,970	24.4
Majority			33	0.4
Turnout			4,045 (est)	79.2 (est)
Registered electors			5,107
	Liberal win (new seat)
	Liberal win (new seat)

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: East Derbyshire[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Francis Egerton	2,206	26.2	+0.4
	Conservative	Francis Arkwright	2,116	25.2	+0.5
	Liberal	William Fowler[4]	2,067	24.6	−0.5
	Conservative	Henry Strutt	2,017	24.0	−0.4
Turnout			4,203 (est)	86.9 (est)	+7.7
Registered electors			4,836
Majority			90	1.0	−0.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.4
Majority			99	1.2	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+0.5

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: East Derbyshire[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alfred Barnes	3,119	28.2	+3.6
	Liberal	Francis Egerton	3,063	27.7	+1.5
	Conservative	Francis Arkwright	2,577	23.3	−1.9
	Conservative	William Gladwin Turbutt[5]	2,303	20.8	−3.2
Majority			486	4.4	+3.4
Turnout			5,531 (est)	89.6 (est)	+2.7
Registered electors			6,173
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.4

References

1. "Representation of the People Act 1867" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
2. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) |format= requires |url= (help) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
3. "The Representation of Derbyshire". Nottinghamshire Guardian. 9 October 1868. p. 5. Retrieved 6 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "The General Election". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. 31 January 1874. p. 4. Retrieved 29 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "East Derbyshire Election". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. 3 April 1880. p. 5. Retrieved 19 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 1)
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