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Samantha Niblett

Samantha Niblett
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for South Derbyshire
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byHeather Wheeler
Majority4,168 (9.1%)
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Websitehttps://www.samanthaniblett.uk/

Samantha Ruth Margaret Niblett[1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire since 2024. She gained the seat from Heather Wheeler.[2]

Career

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Prior to pursuing a full-time political career, Niblett worked at software company 1E as its Head of Alliances, Channel & Ecosystem; before 2022, she had worked in the information technology sector for more than 20 years.[3][4] In 2022, she founded Labour Women in Tech, a campaign for the Labour Party to adopt policies to promote STEM subjects to girls and technology-related careers to women.[5] Labour Women in Tech held in launch event in July 2023 which was attended by then Labour MPs Lucy Powell and Jonathan Ashworth, as well as former Labour MP and future East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward, and future MP for Erewash Adam Thompson.[6]

In politics, Niblett unsuccessfully contested the 2019 and 2023 elections to Erewash Borough Council.[7] [8] In August 2023, she was successfully selected as the Labour Party candidate for the South Derbyshire constituency, which since the 2010 general election had been represented by Conservative MP Heather Wheeler. [9] At the 2019 general election, Wheeler had won South Derbyshire by a margin of 19,335 votes (36.3%) over the second-placed Labour candidate. [10] At the 2024 general election, Niblett defeated Wheeler by a margin of 4,168 votes (9.1%). [11] In doing so, Niblett became the first Labour MP for South Derbyshire since Mark Todd, who held the seat from 1997 to 2010, and is the first female Labour MP for South Derbyshire.

References

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  1. ^ "Members Sworn". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 752. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Derbyshire South | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ Belger, Katie Neame, Morgan Jones, Tom (2024-06-06). "Labour selections: parliamentary candidates selected so far for the general election". LabourList. Retrieved 2024-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Samantha Niblett". www.openended.design. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  5. ^ Niblett, Samantha (2022-10-26). "Labour must form a coherent approach to promoting women and girls in tech". LabourList. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  6. ^ cicero (2023-07-31). "EVENT: H/Advisors Cicero hosts the launch of Labour: Women in Tech". H/Advisors Cicero. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  7. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project - 2019 - Erewash". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  8. ^ "Local Election Results 2023". www.erewash.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  9. ^ "https://web.archive.org/web/20240715183032/https://x.com/samanthaniblet4/status/1687844787557212160?s=46&t=SZnrmfYTAWcVeHDiXEK_9Q&mx=2". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2024-07-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  10. ^ "Derbyshire South parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 - BBC News". Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  11. ^ "South Derbyshire - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
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