Suppose \(C \subset {\mathbb {C}}\) is compact. Let \(q_k\) be a sequence of polynomials of degree \(n_k \rightarrow \infty \) , such that the locus of roots of all the polynomials is bounded, and the number of roots of \(q_k\) in any closed set L disjoint from C is uniformly bounded. Supposing that \((q_k)_k\) has an asymptotic root distribution \(\mu \) we provide conditions on C and \(\mu \) assuring the sequence of mth derivatives \((q_k^{(m)})_k\) has the same asymptotic root distribution \(\mu \) for any \(m\ge 1\) . This complements recent results of Totik, [19].