The county of Norfolk is divided into 10 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 8 county constituencies.[nb 1]
Constituencies
editConservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤ Reform UK ± Green ¥
Constituency[nb 2] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 3] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Broadland and Fakenham CC | 76,863 | 719 | Jerome Mayhew † | Iain Simpson ‡ | |||
Great Yarmouth CC | 73,317 | 1,426 | Rupert Lowe ± | Keir Cozens ‡ | |||
Mid Norfolk CC | 75,238 | 3,054 | George Freeman † | Michael Rosen ‡ | |||
North Norfolk CC | 71,438 | 2,585 | Steffan Aquarone ¤ | Duncan Baker † | |||
North West Norfolk CC | 74,415 | 4,954 | James Wild † | Tim Leaver ‡ | |||
Norwich North BC | 73,717 | 10,850 | Alice Macdonald ‡ | Charlotte Salomon † | |||
Norwich South BC | 76,296 | 13,239 | Clive Lewis ‡ | Jamie Osborn ¥ | |||
South Norfolk CC | 74,006 | 2,826 | Ben Goldsborough ‡ | Poppy Simister-Thomas † | |||
South West Norfolk CC | 74,724 | 630 | Terry Jermy ‡ | Liz Truss † | |||
Waveney Valley CC[nb 1] | 73,056 | 5,593 | Adrian Ramsay ¥ | Richard Rout † |
2024 boundary changes
editFor the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine Norfolk with Suffolk as a sub-region of the East of England region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley, which incorporated areas transferred from South Norfolk to the north of the River Waveney, including the towns of Diss and Harleston. To compensate South Norfolk, Wymondham was transferred in from Mid Norfolk.
Apart from changes to align with new ward boundaries, the only other adjustment was to move Drayton from Broadland (renamed Broadland and Fakenham) to Norwich North.[3][4]
Former name | Boundaries 2010-2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
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Results history
edit2024
editThe number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Norfolk in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 4][2]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Conservative | 132,494 | 28.70% | 28.9% | 3 | 5 |
Labour | 132,398 | 28.68% | 2.8% | 4 | 3 |
Reform | 86,482 | 18.7% | 18.0% | 1 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 50,962 | 11.0% | 1.4% | 1 | 1 |
Greens | 50,249 | 10.9% | 8.4 | 1 | 1 |
Others | 8,999 | 1.9% | 1.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 461,584 | 100.0 | 10 |
Percentage votes
editPrimary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative1 | 44.2 | 50.4 | 50.5 | 50.6 | 47.8 | 47.7 | 51.4 | 42.7 | 43.3 | 50.9 | 49.7 | 51.0 | 49.2 | 36.7 | 41.6 | 39.9 | 43.1 | 44.9 | 52.7 | 57.6 | 28.7 |
Labour | 46.9 | 49.6 | 49.5 | 47.3 | 46.8 | 51.0 | 43.6 | 35.3 | 38.9 | 35.7 | 22.0 | 22.9 | 31.2 | 39.9 | 35.5 | 30.0 | 19.0 | 22.7 | 33.4 | 25.9 | 28.7 |
Reform2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.7 | 18.7 |
Liberal Democrat3 | 8.8 | - | - | 2.1 | 5.3 | 1.3 | 4.8 | 21.7 | 17.7 | 12.8 | 27.9 | 25.8 | 18.6 | 18.2 | 19.6 | 25.4 | 27.8 | 10.3 | 10.0 | 12.4 | 11.0 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 3.2 | 5.1 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 10.9 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.6 | 17.0 | 2.3 | * | * |
Other | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | - | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 5.1 | 3.3 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.9 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
2As the Brexit Party in 2019
31950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
editElection year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
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1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Conservative1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 |
Reform | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Greens | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Timeline
editGreen represents former constituencies, pink represents current ones.
Constituency | 1295-1298 | 1298-1529 | 1529-1558 | 1558-1832 | 1832-1867 | 1867-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1950 | 1950-1974 | 1974-1983 | 1983-2010 | 2010–present |
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Broadland | 2010–present | |||||||||||
Castle Rising | 1558-1832 | |||||||||||
Central Norfolk | 1950-1974 | |||||||||||
East Norfolk | 1832-1867 | 1885-1950 | ||||||||||
Great Yarmouth | 1295-1867 | 1885–present | ||||||||||
King's Lynn | 1298-1974 | |||||||||||
Mid Norfolk | 1885-1918 | 1983–present | ||||||||||
Norfolk | 1295-1832 | |||||||||||
North Norfolk | 1867–present | |||||||||||
North West Norfolk | 1885-1918 | 1974–present | ||||||||||
Norwich | 1298-1950 | |||||||||||
Norwich North | 1950–present | |||||||||||
Norwich South | 1950–present | |||||||||||
South Norfolk | 1867–present | |||||||||||
South West Norfolk | 1885–present | |||||||||||
Thetford | 1529-1867 | |||||||||||
West Norfolk | 1832-1885 |
Historical representation by party
editA cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918
editConservative Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 86 | 1892 | 93 | 95 | 1895 | 98 | 99 | 1900 | 04 | 1906 | 06 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
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Great Yarmouth | Tyler | Moorsom | Colomb | Fell | |||||||||||||||
King's Lynn | Bourke | Jarvis | Bowles | Bellairs | → | Bowles | Ingleby | ||||||||||||
Norfolk East | Birkbeck | Price | |||||||||||||||||
Norfolk Mid | R. Gurdon | → | Higgins | → | R. Gurdon | Wilson | Wodehouse | Boyle | → | Jodrell | |||||||||
Norfolk North | Cozens-Hardy | W. Gurdon | Buxton | ||||||||||||||||
Norfolk North West | Arch | Cavendish-Bentinck | Arch | White | Hemmerde | ||||||||||||||
Norfolk South | Taylor | → | Soames | ||||||||||||||||
Norfolk South West | Tyssen-Amherst | Hare | Winfrey | ||||||||||||||||
Norwich (Two members) | Colman | Bullard | Tillett | Low | Young | ||||||||||||||
Bullard | Hoare | Roberts |
1918 to 1950
editCoalition Labour Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Labour Liberal
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 26 | 1929 | 30 | 31 | 1931 | 1935 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 1945 |
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Great Yarmouth | Fell | Harbord | Meyer | Harbord | → | Jewson | Kinghorn | ||||||||
King's Lynn | Jodrell | Woodwark | Roche | Maxwell | Roche | Wise | |||||||||
Norfolk East | Falcon | Seely | Neville | Lygon | → | Medlicott | |||||||||
Norfolk North | King | → | Buxton | Noel-Buxton | Cook | Gooch | |||||||||
Norfolk South | Cozens-Hardy | Edwards | Hay | Edwards | Christie | Mayhew | |||||||||
Norfolk South West | Winfrey | → | McLean | Taylor | McLean | de Chair | Dye | ||||||||
Norwich (Two members) | Young | → | Jewson | Young | → | Shakespeare | → | Paton | |||||||
Roberts | → | Smith | Fairfax | Smith | Hartland | Strauss | Noel-Buxton |
1950 to 1983
editConservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Social Democratic
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 55 | 1955 | 59 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 81 |
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Great Yarmouth | Kinghorn | Fell | Gray | Fell | ||||||||||
King's Lynn / North West Norfolk (1974) | Wise | Scott-Miller | Bullard | Page | Brocklebank-Fowler | → | ||||||||
Norfolk Central | Medlicott | Collard | Gilmour | → | ||||||||||
Norfolk North | Gooch | Hazell | Howell | |||||||||||
Norfolk South | Baker | Hill | MacGregor | |||||||||||
Norfolk South West | Dye | Bullard | Dye | Hilton | Hawkins | |||||||||
Norwich North | Paton | Wallace | Ennals | |||||||||||
Norwich South | Strauss | Rippon | Norwood | Stuttaford | Garrett |
1983 to present
editConservative Labour Liberal Democrats Reform
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 09 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Broadland / Broadland & Fakenham ('24) | Simpson | Mayhew | ||||||||||
Great Yarmouth | Carttiss | Wright | B. Lewis | Lowe | ||||||||
Mid Norfolk | Ryder | Simpson | Freeman | |||||||||
North Norfolk | Howell | Prior | Lamb | Baker | Aquarone | |||||||
North West Norfolk | Bellingham | Turner | Bellingham | Wild | ||||||||
Norwich North | Thompson | Gibson | Smith | Macdonald | ||||||||
Norwich South | Powley | Garrett | Clarke | Wright | C. Lewis | |||||||
South Norfolk | MacGregor | Bacon | Goldsborough | |||||||||
South West Norfolk | Hawkins | Shephard | Fraser | Truss | Jermy |
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b c Waveney Valley is a cross-county boundary constituency with Suffolk
- ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- ^ It should be acknowledged that as Waveney Valley is a cross-county constituency between Norfolk and Suffolk, and the results of UK elections on sub-constituency levels are not disclosed, the following vote shares include parts of the Waveney Valley constituency located in Suffolk.
References
edit- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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(help) - ^ a b c d "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ "Parliamentary constituency changes affect Norfolk/Suffolk border". BBC News. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 263-293. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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