List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Norfolk
The county of Norfolk is divided into 9 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 7 county constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
| Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadland CC | 78,151 | 21,861 | Jerome Mayhew † | Jess Barnard ‡ |  | ||
| Great Yarmouth CC | 71,957 | 17,663 | Brandon Lewis † | Mike Smith-Clare ‡ |  | ||
| Mid Norfolk CC | 82,203 | 22,594 | George Freeman † | Adrian Heald ‡ |  | ||
| North Norfolk CC | 70,729 | 14,395 | Duncan Baker † | Karen Ward ¤ |  | ||
| North West Norfolk CC | 72,080 | 19,922 | James Wild † | Jo Rust ‡ |  | ||
| Norwich North BC | 67,172 | 4,738 | Chloe Smith † | Karen Davis ‡ |  | ||
| Norwich South BC | 77,845 | 12,760 | Clive Lewis ‡ | Mike Spencer † |  | ||
| South Norfolk CC | 86,214 | 21,275 | Richard Bacon † | Beth Jones ‡ |  | ||
| South West Norfolk CC | 78,455 | 26,195 | Liz Truss † | Emily Blake ‡ |  | ||
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Norfolk's representation be increased to 9 MPs, with the creation of the constituency of Broadland, based on the District of Broadland wards which had previously comprised a majority of Mid Norfolk, as well as Drayton and Taversham, transferred back from Norwich North. It also included Fakenham and surrounding areas, transferred once again from North Norfolk. Mid Norfolk now comprised the District of Breckland wards in the previous version of the constituency with additional wards, including Watton and Attleborough, transferred from South West Norfolk. Six District of South Norfolk wards, including Wymondham, were transferred from the constituency of South Norfolk. Cringleford and Colney (but not New Costessey) were transferred back from Norwich South to South Norfolk and a small area in the south-west of the constituency of North West Norfolk was transferred to South West Norfolk.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed that Norfolk be combined with Suffolk as a sub-region of the Eastern Region, with the creation of the cross-county boundary constituency of Waveney Valley. Broadland would be renamed Broadland and Fakenham.[4][5]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Breckland
- Mid Norfolk (part)
- South West Norfolk (part)
Containing electoral wards from Broadland
- Broadland and Fakenham (part)
- Norwich North (part)
Containing electoral wards in Great Yarmouth
Containing electoral wards in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- North West Norfolk
- South West Norfolk (part)
Containing electoral wards in North Norfolk
- Broadland and Fakenham (part)
- North Norfolk
Containing electoral wards in Norwich
- Norwich North (part)
- Norwich South (part)
Containing electoral wards in South Norfolk
- Mid Norfolk (part)
- Norwich South (part)
- South Norfolk
- Waveney Valley (parts also in East Suffolk and Mid Suffolk)
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Norfolk in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 268,165 | 57.6% |  4.9% |
8 | 1 |
| Labour | 120,780 | 25.9% |  7.5% |
1 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 57,966 | 12.4% | 2.4% |
0 | 1 |
| Greens | 11,812 | 2.5% | 0.9% |
0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 3,395 | 0.7% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 3,840 | 0.9% | 1.4% |
0 | 0 |
| Total | 465,958 | 100.0 | 9 |
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 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 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 3.2 | 5.1 | 1.6 | 2.5 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.6 | 17.0 | 2.3 | * |
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.7 |
| 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 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Labour | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
1885-1910
- 1885
- 1886
- 1892
- 1895
- 1900
- 1906
- Jan 1910
- Dec 1910
1918-1945
- 1918
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1929
- 1931
- 1935
- 1945
1950-1979
- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1959
- 1964
- 1966
- 1970
- 1974 Feb
- 1974 Oct
- 1979
1983-present
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
Green 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||||||
A 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
Conservative 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Coalition 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Conservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Social Democratic
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 55 | 1955 | 59 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 81 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 09 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadland | Simpson | Mayhew | |||||||||
| Mid Norfolk | Ryder | Simpson | Freeman | ||||||||
| South Norfolk | MacGregor | Bacon | |||||||||
| South West Norfolk | Hawkins | Shephard | Fraser | Truss | |||||||
| North Norfolk | Howell | Prior | Lamb | Baker | |||||||
| North West Norfolk | Bellingham | Turner | Bellingham | Wild | |||||||
| Great Yarmouth | Carttiss | Wright | B. Lewis | ||||||||
| Norwich North | Thompson | Gibson | Smith | ||||||||
| Norwich South | Powley | Garrett | Clarke | Wright | C. Lewis | ||||||
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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