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Derby is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950. It was represented by two members of parliament. It was divided into the single-member constituencies of Derby North and Derby South in 1950.

Derby
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1295–1950 (split)
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Derby North and Derby South

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.

Members of Parliament

1294–1640

Parliament	First member	Second member
1294	William de la Cornere	Randalph Makeneye[1]
1297	William Bourne de Derby	Nicklos de Lorimer[1]
1299	Nicklos de Lorimer	Gervase de Derby[1]
1301	Gervase de Wilnye	Adam le Rede[1]
1304	John de la Corne	Richard Cardoyl[1]
1305	John de Chaddesdon	Gervase de Wileyne[1]
1306	Hugh Alibon	Peter la Chapman[1]
1307	John Chaddesdon	Gervase de Wilney[1]
1310	Henry Alwaston	Thomas de Stade[1]
1311	Thomas del Sted	Henry Bindetton[1]
1312	Geffry de Leycestre	Robert de Breydsale[1]
1313	John Fitz John	Henry Lomb[1]
1314	Adam le Rede	William de Aleby[1]
1314	William de Aleby	Adam le Rede[1]
1318	Simon de Chester	Richard Breddon[1]
1318	Alexander de Holand	John de Weston[1]
1325	Henry le Carpenter	John Fitz Richard[1]
1327	John Fitz Gilbert	Ferhun Tutbury[1]
1328	Simon de Chester	John Collings[1]
1328	Thomas Tulaxbar	Geffry Snayth[1]
1330	Simon de Nottingham	John de Weston[1]
1333	Hugh Allibon	John Gibbonson[1]
1334	John Gibbonson	?[1]
1335	Nicholas Langford	John Fitz Thomas[1]
1336	Simon de Chester	John Gibbonson[1]
1337	John Fitz William	Thomas Tuttebury[1]
1338	William de Derby	John Hache	Robert Allibon[1]
1338	William de Derby	Robert de Weston[1]
1338	Simon de Chester	Robert Allibon[1]
1338	Henry del Howe	Robert Saundry[1]
1339	Alexander Holland	John Weston[1]
1339	John Gibbonson	Thomas Preston[1]
1339	Thomas Tutbury	Thomas Thurmondsley[1]
1341	Thomas de Tutbury	Thomas Derby[1]
1341	Richard de Trowell	Peter de Quarndon[1]
1342	Simon de Nottingham	Thomas de Derby[1]
1344	William de Nottingham	Simon de Chester[1]
1348	William de Chaddesdon	Thomas de Tutbury[1]
1350	William Gilbert	John de Chaddesdon[1]
1351	Thomas Tutbury	William de Derby[1]
1354	William Chester	Richard Chelford[1]
1355	Thomas Tutbury	Henry Diddound[1]
1355	Edmund Toucher	John Bech[1]
1356	William Ennington	William Nayle[1]
1358	William de Chester	William Nayle[1]
1361	Peter Prentice	William de Rossington[1]
1362	Peter Prentice	William de Rossington[1]
1363	John Trowell	John Weeke[1]
1364	John Bradon	Robert Allibon[1]
1365	William Chester	John Gilbert[1]
1366	John Berd	William Sese[1]
1369	John de Brakkerley	William Glasyere[1]
1370	John Preest	John de Brakkerley[1]
1372	John Trowell	?[1]
1373	William Chester	John Gilbert[1]
1374	William Pakeman	Roger Allibon[1]
1377	William Groos	John de Berdee[1]
1378	John Hay	Richard de Trowell[1]
1378	Henry Flanstead	Roger Allibon[1]
1379	Richard Dell	Roger Ashe[1]
1382	Thomas Toppeleyse	John Hay[1]
1383	William Pakeman	John Bowyer[1]
1383	Richard de Trowell	John Gibbon[1]
1384	Richard Sherman	John de Stockes[1]
1385	Richard Trowell	John Dell[1]
1386	John Stokkes	John Prentice I[2]
1388 (Feb)	William Pakeman	Thomas Tappely[2]
1388 (Sep)	William Pakeman	Hugh Adam[2]
1390 (Jan)	John Stokkes	John Hay[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Richard Sherman	Thomas Docking[2]
1393	John Stokkes	Richard Trowell[2]
1394
1395	John Stokkes	William Groos[2]
1397 (Jan)	William Groos	Thomas Shore[2]
1397 (Sep)	William Groos	Thomas Shore[2]
1399	John Stokkes	Thomas Docking[2]
1401
1402	Elias Stokkes	Richard Trowell[2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)	John Prentice II	John Stokkes[2]
1406	Thomas Goldsmith	John Fairclough[2]
1407
1410
1411	John Brasier	Thomas Shore[2]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Elias Stokkes[2]
1414 (Apr)	John Prentice II	Robert Bolton[2]
1414 (Nov)	Elias Stokkes	Thomas Ridgeway[2]
1415
1416 (Mar)	Elias Stokkes	Roger Wolley[2]
1416 (Oct)
1417	Robert Ireland	Thomas Steppingstones[2]
1419	John Sparham	Ralph Shore[2]
1420	Richard Brown	Robert Smith[2]
1421 (May)	Ralph Shore	Thomas Stokkes[2]
1421 (Dec)	Ralph Shore	John Spicer[2]
1422	John Stokes	John Barker[1]
1423	John de Both	Elias Dell[1]
1424	John Stokes	Elias Dell[1]
1425	Roger Wolley	Henry Crabbe[1]
1427	Nicholas Meysham	John de Stokkys[1]
1429	John de Bath	Elias Stokkys[1]
1430	Thomas Stokkes	Robert Smith[1]
1432	John Booth	Robert Sutton[1]
1434	John Bothe	Thomas Stokeys[1]
1436	Thomas Stokks	Elias Tildesley[1]
1441	Thomas Stokkys	Henry Spicer[1]
1446	Thomas Chatley	Robert Mundy[1]
1448	Thomas Chatterley	John Spicer[1]
1449	Richard Chitterley	Thomas Chitterley[1]
1450	Thomas Acard	Thomas Bradshawe[1]
1454	John Bird	Edward Lovel[1]
1459	John Bird	William Hunter[1]
1468	Thomas Bakynton	Thomas Allestre[1]
1473	John Newton	Roger Wilkinson[1]
1478	John Briddle	John Newton[1]
1510–1523	No names known[3]
1529	Thomas Ward	Henry Ainsworth[3]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	Thomas Sutton	William Allestry[3]
1545	Thomas Sutton	William Allestry[3]
1547	Thomas Sutton	Robert Ragg[3]
1553 (Mar)	Robert Ragg	William Allestry[3]
1553 (Oct)	Thomas Sutton	George Cherneley[3]
1554 (Apr)	William Allestry	George Stringer[3]
1554 (Nov)	William More	William Bainbridge[3]
1555	Richard Ward	William Allestry[3]
1558	James Thatcher	William Bainbridge[3]
1558–9	Richard Doughty	William Bainbridge[4]
1562–3	William More	William Bainbridge[4]
1571	Robert Stringer	William Bainbridge[4]
1572	Robert Stringer	Tristram Tyrwhitt, expelled and repl. 1576 by Robert Bainbridge[4]
1584	Sir Henry Beaumont	William Botham[4]
1586 (Sep)	William Botham	Robert Bainbridge[4]
1588–9	Richard Fletcher	William Botham[4]
1593	Robert Stringer	William Botham[4]
1597	Henry Duport	Robert Stringer[4]
1601 (Oct)	Peter Eure	John Baxter[4]
1604–1611	John Baxter	Edward Sleighe
1614	Gilbert Kniveton	Arthur Turnor
1621–1622	Timothy Leeving	Edward Leech
1624	Timothy Leeving	Sir Edward Leech
1625	Timothy Leeving	Sir Edward Leech
1626	Sir Henry Crofts	John Thoroughgood
1628–1629	Philip Mainwaring	Timothy Leeving
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

1640–1950

Year		First member	First party	Second member	Second party
	November 1640	William Allestry	Royalist	Nathaniel Hallowes	Parliamentarian
	October 1643	Allestry disabled to sit – seat vacant
	1645	Thomas Gell
	December 1648	Gell excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
	1653	Derby was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
	1654	Gervase Bennet		Derby had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
	January 1659	Gervase Bennet		John Dalton
	May 1659	Nathaniel Hallowes		One seat vacant
	April 1660	Roger Allestry		John Dalton
	1665	Anchitell Grey		John Dalton
	1679	Anchitell Grey		George Vernon
	1685	William Allestry		John Coke
	1689	Anchitell Grey		John Coke
	1690	Anchitell Grey		Robert Wilmot
	1695	Lord Henry Cavendish		John Bagnold
	1698	Lord Henry Cavendish		George Vernon
	1701	Lord James Cavendish		Sir Charles Pye
	1701	Lord James Cavendish		John Harpur
	1702	Thomas Stanhope		John Harpur
	1705	Lord James Cavendish		Sir Thomas Parker	Whig
	1710	Lord James Cavendish		Richard Pye
	1710	Sir Richard Levinge		John Harpur
	1711	Edward Mundy		John Harpur
	1713	Edward Mundy		Nathaniel Curzon
	1715	Lord James Cavendish		William Stanhope	Whig
	1722			Thomas Bayley
	1727			William Stanhope	Whig
	1730			Charles Stanhope
	1736			John Stanhope
	1742	Viscount Duncannon		John Stanhope
	1748	Viscount Duncannon		Thomas Rivett
	1754	Lord Frederick Cavendish	Whig[5]	George Venables-Vernon
	1762			William Fitzherbert
	1772			Wenman Coke	Whig[5]
	1775			John Gisborne	Whig[5]
	1776			Daniel Coke	Tory[5]
	1780	Lord George Cavendish	Whig[5]	Edward Coke	Whig[5]
	1797	George Walpole	Whig[5]
	1806	William Cavendish	Whig[5]
	1807			Thomas Coke	Whig[5]
	1807			Edward Coke	Whig[5]
	1812	Henry Cavendish	Whig[5]	Edward Coke	Whig[5]
	1818			Thomas William Coke	Whig[6]
	1826			Samuel Crompton	Whig[5]
	1830			Edward Strutt	Whig[7][8][9][10][5]
	1835	John Ponsonby	Whig[5][11][12][13]
	1847[14]	Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower	Whig[15][16][17]
	1848	Michael Thomas Bass	Radical[18][19][20][21]	Lawrence Heyworth	Radical[22][23][20]
	1852			Thomas Horsfall[24]^{[citation needed]}	Conservative
	1853			Lawrence Heyworth	Radical[22][23][20]
	1857			Samuel Beale	Radical[25]
	1859		Liberal	Samuel Beale	Liberal
	1865			William Thomas Cox	Conservative
	1868			Samuel Plimsoll	Liberal
	1880			Sir William Vernon-Harcourt	Liberal
	1883	Thomas Roe	Liberal	Sir William Vernon-Harcourt	Liberal
	1895	Sir Henry Howe Bemrose	Conservative	Geoffrey Drage	Conservative
	1900	Sir Thomas Roe	Liberal	Richard Bell	Labour
	1904			Richard Bell	Liberal
	1910			J. H. Thomas	Labour
	1916	Sir William Job Collins	Liberal
	1918	Albert Green	Conservative
	1922	Charles Roberts	Liberal
	1923	William Raynes	Labour
	1924	Sir Richard Luce	Conservative
	1929	William Raynes	Labour
	1931	William Allan Reid	Conservative		National Labour
	1936	William Allan Reid	Conservative	Philip Noel-Baker	Labour
	1945	Clifford Wilcock	Labour	Philip Noel-Baker	Labour
1950		Constituency split into North and South seats

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Derby (2 seats)[5][26]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Henry Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	Edward Strutt	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 650
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1831: Derby (2 seats)[5][26]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Henry Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	Edward Strutt	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 650
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1832: Derby (2 seats)[27][5][26]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	884	43.5	*N/A*
	Whig	Henry Cavendish	716	35.3	*N/A*
	Tory	Charles Henry Colvile	430	21.2	New
Majority			286	14.1	N/A
Turnout			1,136	82.1	N/A
Registered electors			1,384
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1835: Derby (2 seats)[27][5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	903	42.0	−1.5
	Whig	John Ponsonby	724	33.6	−1.7
	Conservative	Francis Curzon[28]	525	24.4	+3.2
Majority			199	9.2	−4.9
Turnout			c. 1,076	c. 72.8	c. +9.3
Registered electors			1,478
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.6
	Whig hold		Swing	−1.7

General election 1837: Derby (2 seats)[27][5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	836	32.1	−9.9
	Whig	John Ponsonby	791	30.3	−3.3
	Conservative	Francis Curzon[28]	525	20.1	+7.9
	Conservative	Charles Robert Colvile	456	17.5	+5.3
Majority			266	10.2	+1.0
Turnout			1,318	75.3	c. +2.5
Registered electors			1,751
	Whig hold		Swing	−8.3
	Whig hold		Swing	−5.0

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Derby (2 seats)[27][5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	875	39.0	+6.9
	Whig	John Ponsonby	784	34.9	+4.6
	Conservative	Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole	587	26.1	−11.5
Majority			197	8.8	−1.4
Turnout			1,377	72.2	−3.1
Registered electors			1,906
	Whig hold		Swing	+6.3
	Whig hold		Swing	+5.2

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

By-election, 4 September 1846: Derby[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	835	59.9	−14.0
	Conservative	Digby Mackworth	559	40.1	+14.0
Majority			276	19.8	+11.0
Turnout			1,394	68.9	−3.3
Registered electors			2,022
	Whig hold		Swing	−14.0

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

By-election, 16 June 1847: Derby[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Frederick Leveson-Gower	Unopposed
	Whig hold

General election 1847: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Strutt	881	31.8	−7.2
	Whig	Frederick Leveson-Gower	852	30.8	−4.1
	Conservative	Henry Raikes[29]	820	29.6	+3.5
	Chartist	Philip McGrath[30]	216	7.8	New
Majority			32	1.2	−7.6
Turnout			1,385	63.6	−8.6
Registered electors			2,177
	Whig hold		Swing	−4.5
	Whig hold		Swing	−2.9

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.[31]

By-election, 2 September 1848: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	Michael Thomas Bass	956	28.1	−3.7
	Radical	Lawrence Heyworth	912	26.8	−4.0
	Conservative	James William Freshfield[32]	778	22.8	+8.0
	Conservative	James Lord[33]	760	22.3	+7.5
Majority			134	4.0	N/A
Turnout			1,703 (est)	78.2 (est)	+14.6
Registered electors			2,177
	Radical gain from Whig		Swing	−5.7
	Radical gain from Whig		Swing	−5.9

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	Michael Thomas Bass	1,252	38.0	+6.2
	Conservative	Thomas Horsfall	1,025	31.1	+1.5
	Radical	Lawrence Heyworth	1,018	30.9	+0.1
Turnout			2,160 (est)	88.2 (est)	+24.6
Registered electors			2,448
Majority			227	6.9	N/A
	Radical gain from Whig		Swing	+2.7
Majority			7	0.2	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	−3.9

Horsfall's election was in March 1853 declared void due to bribery, and Heyworth was declared elected in his place.[34]

General election 1857: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Radical	Michael Thomas Bass	884	40.9	+2.9
	Radical	Samuel Beale	846	39.2	+8.3
	Conservative	William Forbes Mackenzie	430	19.9	−11.2
Majority			416	19.3	+12.4
Turnout			1,295 (est)	52.2 (est)	−36.0
Registered electors			2,479
	Radical hold		Swing	+4.3
	Radical gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.0

General election 1859: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael Thomas Bass	1,260	35.5	−5.4
	Liberal	Samuel Beale	902	25.4	−13.8
	Liberal	William Milbourne James[35][36]	736	20.8	N/A
	Conservative	Henry Cecil Raikes[37]	648	18.3	−1.6
Majority			166	4.6	−14.7
Turnout			1,773 (est)	70.6 (est)	+18.4
Registered electors			2,513
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−6.5

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Thomas Cox	1,096	31.7	+13.4
	Liberal	Michael Thomas Bass	1,063	30.7	+5.3
	Liberal	Samuel Plimsoll	691	20.0	−0.8
	Liberal	Samuel Beale	608	17.6	−7.8
Majority			33	1.0	N/A
Turnout			2,277 (est)	92.9 (est)	+22.3
Registered electors			2,450
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.1

General election 1868: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael Thomas Bass	4,995	41.1	+10.4
	Liberal	Samuel Plimsoll	4,677	38.4	+18.4
	Conservative	William Thomas Cox	2,492	20.5	−11.2
Majority			2,185	17.9	N/A
Turnout			7,328 (est)	75.0 (est)	−17.9
Registered electors			9,777
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+8.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+12.0

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael Thomas Bass	5,579	39.4	−1.7
	Liberal	Samuel Plimsoll	4,938	34.9	−3.5
	Conservative	William Thomas Cox[38]	3,642	25.7	+5.2
Majority			1,296	9.2	−8.7
Turnout			8,901 (est)	78.7 (est)	+3.7
Registered electors			11,316
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.1

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Derby (2 seats)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michael Thomas Bass	8,864	45.8	+6.4
	Liberal	Samuel Plimsoll	7,758	40.1	+5.2
	Conservative	Thomas Collins	2,730	14.1	−11.6
Majority			5,028	26.0	+16.8
Turnout			11,594 (est)	89.1 (est)	+10.4
Registered electors			13,006
	Liberal hold		Swing	+6.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+5.5

Plimsoll's resignation caused a by-election.

By-election, 26 May 1880: Derby (1 seat)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Harcourt	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

Bass' resignation caused a by-election.

By-election, 12 Jun 1883: Derby (1 seat)[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

General election 1885: Derby (2 seats)[39][40][41]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	7,813	36.1	−9.7
	Liberal	William Harcourt	7,630	35.3	−4.8
	Conservative	William Brown Hextall	4,943	22.8	+8.7
	Independent Liberal	Alfred Stace Dyer[42]	1,251	5.8	N/A
Majority			2,687	12.5	−13.5
Turnout			12,868	86.2	−2.9 (est)
Registered electors			14,925
	Liberal hold		Swing	−9.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−6.8

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

By-election, 9 Feb 1886: Derby (1 seat)[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Harcourt	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

General election 1886: Derby (2 seats)[39][40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	6,571	37.8	+1.7
	Liberal	William Harcourt	6,431	37.1	+1.8
	Liberal Unionist	William Evans[43]	4,346	25.1	+2.3
Majority			2,085	12.0	−0.5
Turnout			10,758	72.1	−14.1
Registered electors			14,925
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.3

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Derby (2 seats)[39][40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Harcourt	7,507	29.1	−8.7
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	7,389	28.6	−8.5
	Conservative	William Brown Hextall	5,546	21.5	New
	Liberal Unionist	Alfred Seale Haslam	5,363	20.8	−4.3
Majority			1,843	7.1	−4.9
Turnout			12,903 [est 1]	83.6	+11.5
Registered electors			15,754
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.1

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

1892 Derby by-election[39][40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Harcourt	6,508	80.1	+22.4
	Independent	Henry Farmer-Atkinson[n 1]	1,619	19.9	New
Majority			4,889	60.2	+53.1
Turnout			8,127	51.6	−32.0
Registered electors			15,754
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1895: Derby (2 seats)[39][41][40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Howe Bemrose	7,907	28.0	+6.5
	Conservative	Geoffrey Drage	7,076	25.1	+4.3
	Liberal	William Harcourt	6,785	24.0	−5.1
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	6,475	22.9	−5.7
Majority			291	1.1	N/A
Turnout			14,122[est 1]	82.8	−0.8
Registered electors			17,379
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.8
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+4.7

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Derby (2 seats)[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	7,922	26.6	−20.3[n 2]
	Labour Repr. Cmte.	Richard Bell	7,640	25.7	*New*
	Conservative	Henry Howe Bemrose	7,397	24.9	−3.1
	Conservative	Geoffrey Drage	6,775	22.8	−2.3
Turnout			29,734	84.5	+1.7
Registered electors			18,270
Majority			525	1.7	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A
Majority			243	0.8	N/A
	Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

General election 1906: Derby (2 seats)[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Richard Bell	10,361	31.0	+5.3
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	10,239	30.6	+4.0
	Conservative	James Henry Edward Holford	6,421	19.2	−5.7
	Conservative	Edward George Spencer Churchill	6,409	19.2	−3.6
Turnout			33,430	87.6	+3.1
Registered electors			19,543
Majority			3,818	11.4	+9.7
	Lib-Lab hold		Swing	+5.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Derby (2 seats)[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	10,343	28.3	−2.3
	Labour	J. H. Thomas[n 3]	10,189	27.9	−3.1
	Conservative	Arthur Edward Beck	8,038	22.0	+2.8
	Conservative	Arthur Page	7,953	21.8	+2.6
Turnout			36,523	92.5	+4.9
Registered electors			20,113
Majority			2,305	6.3	−5.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.6
Majority			2,151	5.9	N/A
	Labour gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	N/A

General election December 1910: Derby (2 seats)[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Roe	9,515	35.5	+7.2
	Labour	J. H. Thomas	9,144	34.1	+6.2
	Conservative	Arthur Edward Beck[n 4]	8,160	30.4	−13.4
Turnout			26,819	88.0	−4.5
Registered electors			20,113
Majority			1,355	5.1	−1.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+10.3
Majority			984	3.7	−2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+9.8

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

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

1916 Derby by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Collins	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

General election 1918: Derby (2 seats)[44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. H. Thomas	25,145	37.8	+3.7
	Unionist	Albert Green	14,920	22.4	−8.0
	Liberal	William Blews Rowbotham	13,408	20.2	−15.3
	National Democratic	Harold Machin Smith	13,012	19.6	New
Turnout			66,485	65.5	−22.5
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing
Majority			1,512	2.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing
Majority			11,737	17.6	+13.6

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Derby (2 seats) [44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y J. H. Thomas	25,215	27.0	−10.8
	Liberal	Y Charles Henry Roberts	24,068	25.8	+5.6
	Unionist	Albert Green	22,240	23.9	+1.5
	Labour	William Raynes	21,677	23.3	N/A
Turnout			93,200	84.0	+18.5
Majority			1,828	1.9	−0.3
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing
Majority			2,975	3.1	−14.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1923: Derby (2 seats) [44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y J. H. Thomas	24,887	29.0	+2.0
	Labour	Y William Robert Raynes	20,318	23.7	+0.4
	Unionist	Henry Fitz-Herbert Wright	20,070	23.4	−0.5
	Liberal	Charles Henry Roberts	10,669	12.5	−13.3
	Ind. Unionist	Thomas Clifford Newbold	9,772	11.4	New
Turnout			85,716	81.1	−2.9
Majority			248	0.3	N/A
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.8

General election 1924: Derby (2 seats) [44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y J. H. Thomas	27,423	25.7	−3.3
	Unionist	Y Richard Luce	25,425	23.8	+0.4
	Labour	William Robert Raynes	25,172	23.6	−0.1
	Unionist	Hilda Hulse	21,700	20.3	N/A
	Liberal	James Henderson-Stewart	7,083	6.6	−5.9
Turnout			99,720	85.2	+4.1
Majority			5,723	5.4	+5.1
	Labour hold		Swing
Majority			353	0.2	N/A
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1929: Derby (2 seats) [44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	YJ. H. Thomas	39,688	30.0	+4.3
	Labour	YWilliam Robert Raynes	36,237	27.4	+3.8
	Unionist	Richard Luce	24,553	18.6	−5.2
	Unionist	John Arthur Aiton	20,443	15.4	−4.9
	Liberal	L. du Garde Peach	11,317	8.6	+2.0
Turnout			132,238	82.6	−2.6
Majority			11,684	8.8	N/A
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+4.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Derby (2 seats)[44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Y J. H. Thomas	49,257	36.4	*New*
	Conservative	Y William Reid	47,729	34.3	+0.3
	Labour	William Robert Raynes	21,841	15.7	−11.7
	Labour	Walter Halls	20,241	14.6	−12.8
Majority			27,416	19.7	+10.9
Turnout			139,068	84.5	+1.9
	National Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General election 1935: Derby (2 seats)[44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Y William Reid	37,707	30.19
	National Labour	Y J. H. Thomas	37,566	30.08
	Labour	Herbert Arthur Hind	25,037	20.04
	Labour	Leonard John Barnes	24,594	19.69
Majority			12,670	10.15
Turnout			124,904
	Conservative hold		Swing
	National Labour hold		Swing

1936 Derby by-election[45]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Noel-Baker	28,419	52.5	+12.8
	National Labour	Archibald Church	25,666	47.5	+17.4
Majority			2,753	5.0	N/A
Turnout			54,085	65.5
	Labour gain from National Labour		Swing

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[46]
Conservative: P C Cooper-Parry[47]
National Labour: Archibald Church[48]

General election 1945: Derby (2 seats)[44]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Philip Noel-Baker	42,196	33.60
	Labour	Y Clifford Wilcock	40,800	32.49
	Conservative	Francis Lochrane	21,460	17.09
	Conservative	Max Bemrose	21,125	16.82
Majority			19,340	16.51	N/A
Turnout			125,581	76.39
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

References

Notes

Supported by Henry Varley's Social Purity Alliance
Compared to joint Liberal vote in 1895
Compared to Lib-Lab candidate in 1906
Compared to combined Conservative share at Jan 1910 election

Based on half of the total votes

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