Chesterfield.

Chesterfield is a single-town seat in the East Midlands, dominated by the market town of Chesterfield itself, which holds roughly three-quarters of the constituency's 95,500 residents. The remainder spreads across the smaller towns of Brimington and Staveley to the east, with Duckmanton and a thin band of rural and dispersed settlement beyond. The population is older than the national norm, with a median age of 45, overwhelmingly White at 95.4 per cent, and below the typical graduate share at 27.4 per cent degree-educated. Local services fall to a single body, Chesterfield Borough Council, a district authority covering the thirteen wards that make up the seat.

That single-authority footprint has, on the figures available, leaned Labour for some time. Across the thirty most recent ward contests Labour took 23 and the Liberal Democrats seven, the latter concentrated in the Brampton and Brockwell wards on the western side of the town, where the Liberal Democrats won the most recent Brampton East and Boythorpe contest in May 2025. Most other wards were last fought in 2023, so the picture is not uniformly fresh. At the 2024 general election Labour won the seat on 46.5 per cent, ahead of the Conservatives on 20.4 per cent -- a margin that widened sharply from the closer four-point result of 2019. The sitting member, Toby Perkins, has held the seat for Labour since 2010 and shows no recorded whipped dissent in the past 90 days.

The seat therefore appears settled rather than contested, with Labour's parliamentary position broad and the local opposition confined to a western pocket. Recent local coverage has had a largely administrative cast, turning on council budgets, town-centre regeneration and the planned move to a unitary authority later this decade. Crime sits noticeably above the per-constituency average in several categories, with public order offences running about two-thirds higher and recorded violence and sexual offences roughly half as high again, alongside elevated anti-social behaviour. None of this disturbs the underlying balance: on the figures to hand, Chesterfield reads as a stable Labour seat in a quiet phase.