North East Derbyshire (constituency)

North East Derbyshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North East Derbyshire in Derbyshire for the 2010 general election.
Location of Derbyshire within England.
County	Derbyshire
Electorate	72,374 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Clay Cross, Dronfield, Killamarsh, Staveley
Current constituency
Created	1885
Member of parliament	Natascha Engel (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	East Derbyshire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

North East Derbyshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Natascha Engel of the Labour Party.

The seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Until 1910, the area was regularly represented by a Liberal MP. Since 1935, N.E. Derbyshire has elected a Labour candidate as MP. In 2010, the result meant the seat became marginal, and this continued in 2015. The runner-up candidate since 1945 has been a Conservative. The 2015 result gave the seat the 17th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.

In line with nationwide swing in 2015, UKIP fielded a candidate who won more than 5% of the vote therefore kept their deposit; the Liberal Democrat candidate forfeited their deposit in 2015. The Green Party fielded a candidate for the first time in 2015; the party's Kesteven forfeited his deposit.

Turnout has ranged from 58.9% in 2001 to 86.4% in 1950.

In the 20th century mining and associated industries were an important source of employment and primary industries for the wider economy, though the former ceased around 1970. At about the same time, some ex-mining towns like Dronfield saw much middle class commuter house building in areas like Dronfield Woodhouse; jobs were typically in Sheffield and Chesterfield.