Amber Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

Amber Valley
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Amber Valley in Derbyshire.
Location of Derbyshire within England.
County	Derbyshire
Population	87,883 (2011 census)
Electorate	69,538 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Nigel Mills (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Belper, Derbyshire South East and Ilkeston
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

Amber Valley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nigel Mills of the Conservative Party.

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.

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.

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.