The constituency was created in 1983. From this point in time until the 1997 general election , Phillip Oppenheim , a member of the Conservative Party, took care of the interests of the voters in the House of Commons. 1997 Judy Mallaber from the Labor Party prevailed against Oppenheim. She held the seat for Amber Valley until 2010, when she lost by just 536 votes to Conservative Party candidate Nigel Mills.
Limits
The boundaries of the constituency were changed several times.
1983-1997
From its inception until the 1997 general election, the constituency included the boroughs of Aldercar, Alfreton East, Alfreton West, Codnor, Denby and Horsley Woodhouse, Heage and Ambergate, Heanor East, Heanor and Loscoe, Heanor West, Holbrook and Horsley, Kilburn, Riddings, Ripley, Ripley and Marehay, Shipley Park, Somercotes, Swanwick and Wingfield in the District of Amber Valley and in the Borough of Erewash the boroughs of Breadsall and Morley, Little Eaton and Stanley.
1997-2010
For the 1997 general election, the constituency boundaries were changed. Until 2010 it comprised the districts 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 boroughs of Breadsall and Morley, Little Eaton and Stanley.
2010 until today
The current boundaries of the constituency were set by the Boundary Commissions for the 2010 general election. The creation of the Mid Derbyshire constituency also had an impact on the boundaries of the Amber Valley constituency. It lost some of its districts to the newly formed constituency and now includes the districts 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, all of which are part of the Borough of Amber Valley .
Political orientation
The towns of Alfreton , Heanor and Ripley, which are part of the constituency , are largely shaped by voters of the Labor Party, which was always expressed in a majority for this party in the city council elections that took place between 1960 and 2012 . In the more rural areas of the electoral district, on the other hand, the election results at the local level show a majority in the Conservative Party. In the Amber Valley Borough Council , the Conservative Party held a majority , most recently in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats , but lost it to the Labor Party in the elections on May 22, 2014.
