North Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Derbyshire was a Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom. It returned two Knights of the Shire to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

North Derbyshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Form 1832-1868. Extract from 1837 result: the westerly 'doubly' orange area.
1832–1885
Seats	two
Created from	Derbyshire
Replaced by	High Peak and West Derbyshire

The constituency was created when Derbyshire constituency was split into North Derbyshire and South Derbyshire under the Reform Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45). It was abolished in 1885, together with the constituencies of South Derbyshire and East Derbyshire. In 1885 the area of the three constituencies was split between the new smaller constituencies of Chesterfield, Mid Derbyshire, North-East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire, West Derbyshire, High Peak and Ilkeston.

Boundaries

1832–1868: The Hundreds of High Peak and Scarsdale, and so much of the Wapentake of Wirksworth as was comprised in the Bakewell Division.^[1]

1868–1885: The Hundred of High Peak and the Wapentake of Wirksworth.^[2]

Members of Parliament

John Cheetham

Election			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Lord Cavendish of Keighley	Whig[3]	Thomas Gisborne	Whig[3]
		1834 by-election	Lord George Cavendish	Whig[4][5][3]
		1837			William Evans	Whig[5][3][6]
		1853 by-election			William Pole Thornhill	Independent Whig[7][8]
		1859		Liberal		Liberal
		1865			William Jackson	Liberal
		1868			Augustus Arkwright	Conservative
		1880	Lord Edward Cavendish	Liberal	John Frederick Cheetham	Liberal
		1885	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1832: North Derbyshire^[9][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	William Cavendish	3,388	48.7
	Whig	Thomas Gisborne	2,385	34.3
	Tory	Sir George Sitwell, 2nd Baronet	1,183	17.0
Majority			1,202	17.3
Turnout			3,677	84.1
Registered electors			4,370
	Whig win (new seat)
	Whig win (new seat)

Cavendish succeeded to the peerage, becoming 7th Duke of Devonshire and causing a by-election.

By-election, 27 May 1834: North Derbyshire^[9][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,370
	Whig hold

General election 1835: North Derbyshire^[9][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	Thomas Gisborne	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,175
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1837: North Derbyshire^[9][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	George Cavendish	2,816	39.0
	Whig	William Evans	2,422	33.5
	Conservative	George Arkwright	1,983	27.5
Majority			439	6.0
Turnout			4,481	81.1
Registered electors			5,527
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	William Evans	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,757
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1847: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	William Evans	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,601
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Whig	William Evans	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,315
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Evans resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 July 1853: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Whig	William Pole Thornhill	1,680	58.4	New
	Whig	William Evans[10][11]	1,195	41.6	N/A
Majority			485	16.8	N/A
Turnout			2,875	55.1	N/A
Registered electors			5,219
	Ind. Whig gain from Whig		Swing	N/A

Evans resigned before the poll concluded.^[12]

General election 1857: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Independent Whig	William Pole Thornhill	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,336
	Whig hold
	Ind. Whig gain from Whig

General election 1859: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Liberal	William Pole Thornhill	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,380
	Liberal hold
	Liberal gain from Ind. Whig

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Liberal	William Jackson	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,055
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

General election 1868: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Cavendish	2,903	35.2	N/A
	Conservative	Augustus Arkwright	2,698	32.8	New
	Liberal	William Jackson	2,637	32.0	N/A
Turnout			5,468 (est)	87.8 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			6,231
Majority			205	2.4	N/A
	Liberal hold
Majority			61	0.8	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Cavendish	Unopposed
	Conservative	Augustus Arkwright	Unopposed
Registered electors			6,594
	Liberal hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: North Derbyshire^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Cavendish	3,416	27.9	N/A
	Liberal	John Frederick Cheetham	3,183	26.0	N/A
	Conservative	Augustus Arkwright	2,936	24.0	N/A
	Conservative	William Sidebottom[13]	2,718	22.2	N/A
Majority			247	2.0	N/A
Turnout			6,127 (est)	87.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			6,985
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

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See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons