Ilkeston (constituency)

Ilkeston
Ilkeston
Former county constituency; for the House of Commons
	Ilkeston in Derbyshire, 1974–1983
1885–1983
Seats	one
Created from	Derbyshire South
Replaced by	Amber Valley and Erewash

Ilkeston is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by one Member of Parliament. In 1983 it was abolished, together with South East Derbyshire, when the Derbyshire county constituencies were redrawn - the constituencies of Amber Valley and Erewash were created and the constituency of South Derbyshire was re-created.

Seatsone

Created fromDerbyshire South

Replaced byAmber Valley and Erewash^[1]

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Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Watson	Liberal
	1887	Sir Walter Foster
	1910	Jack Seely
	1916		Coalition Liberal
	Jan 1922		National Liberal
	Nov 1922	George Oliver	Labour
	1931	Abraham Flint	National Labour
	1935	George Oliver	Labour
	1964	Ray Fletcher	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas Watson	5,780	60.4
	Conservative	William Drury Nathaniel Drury-Lowe^[6]^[7]	3,793	39.6
Majority			1,987	20.8
Turnout			9,573	89.8
Registered electors			10,660
	Liberal win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Watson	4,621	54.9	−5.5
	Conservative	Samuel Leeke	3,793	45.1	+5.5
Majority			828	9.8	−11.0
Turnout			8,414	78.9	−10.9
Registered electors			10,660
	Liberal hold		Swing	−5.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	5,512	56.9	+2.0
	Conservative	Samuel Leeke	4,180	43.1	−2.0
Majority			1,332	13.8	+4.0
Turnout			9,692	88.5	+9.6
Registered electors			10,948
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	6,185	58.4	+3.5
	Conservative	Samuel Leeke	4,402	41.6	−3.5
Majority			1,783	16.8	+7.0
Turnout			10,587	78.2	−0.7
Registered electors			13,541
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.5

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Ilkeston
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Ilkeston in Derbyshire, 1974–1983
1885–1983
Seats	one
Created from	Derbyshire South
Replaced by	Amber Valley and Erewash^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	6,215	54.2	−4.2
	Conservative	Edward Picton Baumgarten	5,254	45.8	+4.2
Majority			961	8.4	−8.4
Turnout			11,469	87.1	+8.9
Registered electors			13,175
	Liberal hold		Swing	−4.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	6,633	53.8	−0.4
	Conservative	Henry Wright	5,698	46.2	+0.4
Majority			935	7.6	−0.8
Turnout			12,331	84.9	−2.2
Registered electors			14,519
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	9,655	64.3	+10.5
	Conservative	LC Tipper	5,358	35.7	−10.5
Majority			4,297	28.6	+21.0
Turnout			15,013	87.2	+2.3
Registered electors			17,216
	Liberal hold		Swing	+10.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Balthazar Foster	10,632	62.3	−2.0
	Conservative	Forbes St John Morrow	6,432	37.7	+2.0
Majority			4,200	24.6	−4.0
Turnout			17,064	87.7	+0.5
Registered electors			19,467
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Seely	10,204	59.8	−2.5
	Conservative	Henry Wright	6,871	40.2	+2.5
Majority			3,333	19.6	−5.0
Turnout			17,075	87.7	0.0
Registered electors			19,467
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Seely	9,990	62.7	+0.4
	Conservative	William Marshall Freeman	5,946	37.3	−0.4
Majority			4,044	25.4	+0.8
Turnout			15,936	81.9	−5.8
Registered electors			19,467
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Seely	9,049	53.6	−9.1
	Unionist	William Marshall Freeman	7,838	46.4	+9.1
Majority			1,211	7.2	−18.2
Turnout			16,887	81.7	−0.2
Registered electors			20,670
	Liberal hold		Swing	−9.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
C	National Liberal	John Seely	9,660	54.8
	Labour	George Oliver	7,962	45.2
Majority			1,698	9.6
Turnout			17,622	61.0
Registered electors			28,896
	National Liberal win (new boundaries)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	9,432	40.0	−5.2
	National Liberal	John Seely	8,348	35.3	−19.5
	Unionist	William Marshall Freeman	5,841	24.7	New
Majority			1,084	4.7	N/A
Turnout			23,621	76.8	+15.8
Registered electors			30,738
	Labour gain from National Liberal		Swing	+7.1

General election 1924: Ilkeston^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	11,011	44.9	+2.8
	Unionist	Victor Raikes	9,203	37.5	+7.5
	Liberal	Anna Barlow	4,320	17.6	−10.3
Majority			1,808	7.4	−4.7
Turnout			24,534	76.1	+6.7
Registered electors			32,243
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.4

General election 1929: Ilkeston^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	20,202	59.0	+14.1
	Liberal	John Vincent Shaw	7,766	22.7	+5.1
	Unionist	Victor Raikes	6,258	18.3	−19.2
Majority			12,436	36.3	+28.9
Turnout			34,226	80.7	+4.6
Registered electors			42,430
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.5

General election 1945: Ilkeston^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	26,536	66.8	+2.5
	Conservative	Philip Hartley	8,439	21.3	–14.4
	Liberal	Charles Foster	4,720	11.9	N/A
Majority			18,097	45.5	+16.9
Turnout			39,695	81.1	−0.6
Registered electors			49,007
	Labour hold		Swing

General election 1951: Ilkeston^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Oliver	40,671	67.41
	Conservative	C Frank Baker	10,273	17.03
	Liberal	Geoffrey Eugene MacPherson	9,387	15.56
Majority			30,398	50.38
Turnout			60,331	86.5
Registered electors			69,773
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	9,191	42.1	+2.1
	Unionist	William Marshall Freeman	6,566	30.0	+5.3
	Liberal	Thomas Worrall Casey	6,112	27.9	−7.4
Majority			2,625	12.1	+7.4
Turnout			21,869	69.4	−7.4
Registered electors			31,503
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Abraham Flint	17,587	50.1	*N/A*
	Labour	George Oliver	17,585	49.9	−9.0
Majority			2	<0.01	N/A
Turnout			35,172	79.7	−1.0
Registered electors			44,116
	National Labour gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Oliver	23,851	64.3	+14.3
	National (Conservative)	Charles Markham	13,250	35.7	−14.3
Majority			10,601	28.6	N/A
Turnout			37,101	81.7	+2.0
Registered electors			45,427
	Labour gain from National Labour		Swing	+14.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Oliver	39,495	64.9
	Liberal	Geoffrey Eugene MacPherson	11,262	18.5
	Conservative	DFR Evans	10,113	16.6
Majority			28,233	46.4
Turnout			60,870	88.5
Registered electors			68,769
	Labour win (new boundaries)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Oliver	38,961	69.29
	Conservative	John Farr	17,268	30.71
Majority			21,693	38.58
Turnout			56,229	80.37
Registered electors			69,967
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	George Oliver	39,930	68.59
	Conservative	Gerald Ivan Walters	18,286	31.41
Majority			21,644	37.18
Turnout			58,216	83.50
Registered electors			69,719
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	33,924	60.2	−8.6
	Conservative	Jeffery Nicholas Lewis Tillett	13,542	24.0	−7.4
	Liberal	Peggy Edwards	8,930	15.8	New
Majority			20,382	36.2	−1.0
Turnout			56,396	82.0
Registered electors			68,796
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	36,522	70.09
	Conservative	Basil J Eales	15,582	29.91
Majority			20,940	40.18
Turnout			52,104	76.20
Registered electors			68,478
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	32,961	59.9	−10.2
	Conservative	Richard Beardsley	15,870	28.9	−1.0
	Liberal	Wim Smit	6,157	11.2	New
Majority			17,091	31.0	−9.2
Turnout			54,988	74.15	−2.05
Registered electors			74,080
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	31,500	52.02
	Conservative	PM Morrell	17,320	28.60
	Liberal	Geoffrey Pool	11,734	19.38
Majority			14,180	23.42
Turnout			60,554	81.45
Registered electors			74,378
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	31,153	54.96
	Conservative	A N R Hamilton	15,858	27.98
	Liberal	Geoffrey Pool	9,671	17.06
Majority			15,295	27.25
Turnout			56,682	74.85
Registered electors			74,962
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ray Fletcher	29,270	50.61
	Conservative	Michael Clark	21,160	35.99
	Liberal	Desmond Blackburn	7,879	13.40
Majority			8,110	14.62
Turnout			58,309	78.1
Registered electors			75,305
	Labour hold		Swing