History
Chesterfield was once a Labour Party stronghold. The former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn held the seat from a by-election in 1984 until his retirement at the 2001 general election (to "spend more time involved in politics"). Paul Holmes gained the seat for the Liberal Democrats at the 2001 general election, the party's first seat in the East Midlands in the House of Commons, but narrowly lost the seat in 2010 to the Labour candidate Toby Perkins; one of only three seats the Labour Party gained in the 2010 election.
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