North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
North Norfolk | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of North Norfolk in Norfolk. | |
Location of Norfolk within England. | |
County | Norfolk |
Electorate | 68,277 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1868 |
Member of parliament | Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat) |
Number of members | one (two 1868-1885) |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
North Norfolk is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Formerly a safe seat for the Conservatives, it has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb since 2001. This marked the first time that a Liberal aligned candidate had won a seat in Norfolk since 1929. This was to be followed by the election of Simon Wright in Norwich South in 2010. While Wright's success was short-lived (he was defeated in 2015), Lamb has retained his seat, which is now one of only two Liberal Democrat seats in southern England, and one of only eight in the whole UK. Although the seat had been Labour for 25 years since World War II, Labour have slumped to a distant third in recent years, and came fourth in 2015.
North Norfolk was described by the Earl of Leicester as "the one constituency in England where, in 1964, it was so feudal that it had to be explained to the electors that the ballot was secret."[2]
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Eynsford, Holt, North Erpingham, and North Greenhoe, and part of the Sessional Division of South Erpingham.
1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Cromer, Sheringham, and Wells-next-the-Sea, and the Rural Districts of Aylsham, Erpingham, and Walsingham.
1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Cromer, North Walsham, Sheringham, and Wells-next-the-Sea, and the Rural Districts of Erpingham, Smallburgh, and Walsingham.
1974-1983: The Urban Districts of Cromer, North Walsham, and Sheringham, and the Rural Districts of Erpingham, St Faiths and Aylsham, and Smallburgh.
1983-2010: The District of North Norfolk.
2010-present: The District of North Norfolk wards of Briston, Chaucer, Corpusty, Cromer Town, Erpingham, Gaunt, Glaven Valley, Happisburgh, High Heath, Holt, Hoveton, Mundesley, North Walsham East, North Walsham North, North Walsham West, Poppyland, Priory, Roughton, St Benet, Scottow, Sheringham North, Sheringham South, Stalham and Sutton, Suffield Park, The Runtons, Waterside, Waxham, and Worstead.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1868–1885
Election | 1st Member[3] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[3] | 2nd Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1868 | constituency created | |||||
1868 | Frederick Walpole | Conservative | Sir Edmund Lacon | Conservative | ||
1876 by-election | James Duff | Conservative | ||||
1879 by-election | Edward Birkbeck | Conservative | ||||
1885 | reduced to one member |
MPs since 1885
Election | Member[3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Herbert Cozens-Hardy | Liberal | |
1899 by-election | William Brampton Gurdon | Liberal | |
Jan 1910 | Noel Buxton | Liberal | |
1918 | Douglas King | Coalition Independent | |
1920 | Coalition Conservative | ||
1922 | Noel Buxton | Labour | |
1930 by-election | Lady Noel-Buxton | Labour | |
1931 | Thomas Cook | Conservative | |
1945 | Edwin Gooch | Labour | |
1964 | Bert Hazell | Labour | |
1970 | Ralph Howell | Conservative | |
1997 | David Prior | Conservative | |
2001 | Norman Lamb | Liberal Democrats | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 19,299 | 39.1 | -16.4 | |
Conservative | Ann Steward[5][6] | 15,256 | 30.9 | -1.2 | |
UKIP | Michael Baker[7] | 8,328 | 16.9 | +11.5 | |
Labour | Denise Burke[8] | 5,043 | 10.2 | +4.4 | |
Green | Mike Macartney-Filgate[9] | 1,488 | 3.0 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 4,043 | 8.2 | |||
Turnout | 49,414 | 71.7 | -1.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | -7.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 27,554 | 55.5 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Trevor Ivory | 15,928 | 32.1 | -3.9 | |
Labour | Phil Harris | 2,896 | 5.8 | -3.1 | |
UKIP | Michael Baker | 2,680 | 5.4 | +3.7 | |
Green | Andrew Boswell | 508 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Independent | Simon Mann | 95 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,626 | 23.4 | |||
Turnout | 49,661 | 73.2 | +0.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +3.1 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 31,515 | 53.4 | +10.7 | |
Conservative | Iain Dale | 20,909 | 35.5 | −6.3 | |
Labour | Phil Harris | 5,447 | 9.2 | −4.1 | |
UKIP | Stuart Agnew | 978 | 1.7 | +0.6 | |
Independent | Justin Appleyard | 116 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 10,606 | 18.0 | |||
Turnout | 58,965 | 73.0 | +2.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +8.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 23,978 | 42.7 | +8.4 | |
Conservative | David Prior | 23,495 | 41.8 | +5.3 | |
Labour | Mike Gates | 7,490 | 13.3 | -11.7 | |
Green | Mike Sheridan | 649 | 1.2 | ||
UKIP | Paul Simison | 608 | 1.1 | ||
Majority | 483 | 0.9 | |||
Turnout | 56,220 | 70.2 | -5.8 | ||
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative | Swing | +1.5 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Prior | 21,456 | 36.5 | -11.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 20,163 | 34.3 | +7.0 | |
Labour | Michael Cullingham | 14,736 | 25.1 | +1.9 | |
Referendum | John Allen | 2,458 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,293 | 2.2 | -18.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,813 | 76.0 | -4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -9.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 28,810 | 48.3 | -5.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Norman Lamb | 16,265 | 27.3 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Michael Cullingham | 13,850 | 23.2 | +3.3 | |
Green | Angie Zelter | 559 | 0.9 | -0.8 | |
Natural Law | S Jackson | 167 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,545 | 21.0 | -7.3 | ||
Turnout | 59,651 | 80.8 | +3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.6 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 28,822 | 53.3 | -0.7 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | Neil Anthony | 13,512 | 25.0 | -1.8 | |
Labour | Anthony Earle | 10,765 | 19.9 | +0.7 | |
Green | Michael Filgate | 960 | 1.8 | ||
Majority | 15,310 | 28.3 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 54,059 | 77.5 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 26,230 | 54.0 | -2.9 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | John Elworthy | 13,007 | 26.8 | +13.0 | |
Labour | Edward Barber | 9,317 | 19.2 | -9.4 | |
Majority | 13,223 | 27.2 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 48,554 | 74.6 | -4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 43,952 | 56.9 | +8.8 | |
Labour | R S Dimmick | 22,126 | 28.6 | -3.4 | |
Liberal | G R Collings | 10,643 | 13.8 | -6.1 | |
National Front | A C R Sizeland | 548 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 21,826 | 28.3 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 72,269 | 78.7 | +2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 33,312 | 48.1 | +0.5 | |
Labour | D M Mason | 22,191 | 32.0 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | R G Moore | 13,776 | 19.9 | -3.9 | |
Majority | 11,121 | 16.1 | -2.9 | ||
Turnout | 69,279 | 76.5 | -6.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 35,684 | 47.6 | -7.7 | |
Labour | D M Mason | 21,394 | 28.6 | -16.1 | |
Liberal | R G Moore | 17,853 | 23.8 | ||
Majority | 14,290 | 19.0 | +8.5 | ||
Turnout | 74,931 | 83.4 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 24,587 | 55.3 | ||
Labour | Bert Hazell | 19,903 | 44.7 | ||
Majority | 4,684 | 10.5 | |||
Turnout | 44,490 | 80.3 | |||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bert Hazell | 20,796 | 50.90 | ||
Conservative | Ralph Frederic Howell | 20,059 | 49.10 | ||
Majority | 737 | 1.80 | |||
Turnout | 83.19 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bert Hazell | 19,370 | 50.1 | ||
Conservative | Frank Henry Easton | 19,303 | 49.9 | ||
Majority | 53 | 0.14 | 0.7 | ||
Turnout | 79.75 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edwin George Gooch | 19,784 | 50.85 | ||
Conservative | Frank Henry Easton | 19,126 | 49.15 | ||
Majority | 658 | 1.69 | |||
Turnout | 79.81 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edwin George Gooch | 20,899 | 51.53 | ||
Conservative | Sir William Scarlett Jameson | 19,657 | 48.47 | ||
Majority | 1,242 | 3.06 | |||
Turnout | 81.64 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edwin George Gooch | 21,067 | 50.33 | ||
Conservative | Douglas M Reid | 20,788 | 49.67 | ||
Majority | 279 | 0.67 | |||
Turnout | 83.66 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edwin George Gooch | 19,790 | 47.99 | ||
Conservative | Douglas M Reid | 17,741 | 43.03 | ||
Liberal | Arnold Jones | 3,703 | 8.98 | ||
Majority | 2,049 | 4.97 | |||
Turnout | 84.31 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Edwin George Gooch | 17,753 | 58.67 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 12,507 | 41.33 | ||
Majority | 5,246 | 17.34 | |||
Turnout | 70.94 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 17,863 | 55.26 | ||
Labour | Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Lady Noel-Buxton | 14,465 | 44.74 | ||
Majority | 3,398 | 10.51 | |||
Turnout | 78.14 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 19,988 | 60.53 | ||
Labour | Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Lady Noel-Buxton | 13,035 | 39.47 | ||
Majority | 6,953 | 21.06 | |||
Turnout | 82.27 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lucy Edith Noel-Buxton, Lady Noel-Buxton | 14,821 | 50.3 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 14,642 | 49.7 | ||
Majority | 179 | 0.6 | |||
Turnout | 75.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Noel Edward Buxton | 14,544 | 47.5 | ||
Unionist | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 12,661 | 41.3 | ||
Liberal | Zelia Krumbhaar Hoffman | 3,403 | 11.1 | ||
Majority | 1,883 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 77.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rt Hon. Noel Edward Buxton | 11,978 | 48.7 | ||
Unionist | Thomas Russell Albert Mason Cook | 9,974 | 40.6 | ||
Liberal | Maurice Alexander | 2,637 | 10.7 | ||
Majority | 2,004 | 8.1 | |||
Turnout | 77.1 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Noel Edward Buxton | 12,278 | 57.6 | +5.4 | |
Unionist | Brian Smith | 9,022 | 42.4 | -5.4 | |
Majority | 3,256 | 15.2 | +10.8 | ||
Turnout | 68.3 | -6.9 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Noel Edward Buxton | 12,004 | 52.2 | ||
Unionist | Roger Bowan Crewdson | 10,975 | 47.8 | ||
Majority | 1,029 | 4.4 | |||
Turnout | 75.2 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Unionist | 9,274 | 50.6 | |||
Liberal | Noel Edward Buxton | 9,061 | 49.4 | ||
Majority | 213 | 1.2 | |||
Turnout | 60.8 | ||||
- endorsed by Coalition Government
General Election 1914/15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Noel Noel-Buxton
- Unionist: Henry Douglas King
- Labour:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Noel Edward Noel-Buxton | 5,187 | |||
Conservative | Henry Douglas King | 4,491 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Noel Edward Noel-Buxton | 5,189 | 53.0 | -5.7 | |
Conservative | Henry Douglas King | 4,604 | 47.0 | +5.7 | |
Majority | 585 | 6.0 | -11.4 | ||
Turnout | 87.7 | +6.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir William Brampton Gurdon | 5,155 | 58.7 | ||
Conservative | F T S Rippingall | 3,628 | 41.3 | ||
Majority | 1,527 | 17.4 | |||
Turnout | 81.4 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir William Brampton Gurdon | 4,490 | 56.2 | -0.7 | |
Conservative | H S Follett | 3,493 | 43.8 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 997 | 12.4 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 77.8 | -5.9 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Sir William Brampton Gurdon | 4,775 | 56.9 | ||
Conservative | Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet | 3,610 | 43.1 | ||
Majority | 1,165 | 13.8 | |||
Turnout | 8,385 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert Cozens-Hardy | 4,246 | 53.6 | ||
Conservative | Sir Kenneth Hagar Kemp, 12th Baronet | 3,678 | 46.4 | ||
Majority | 568 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 7,924 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert Cozens-Hardy | 4,084 | 55.1 | -5.0 | |
Conservative | A E Fellowes | 3,324 | 44.9 | +5.0 | |
Majority | 760 | 10.2 | -10.0 | ||
Turnout | 7,408 | 76.0 | -9.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Herbert Cozens-Hardy | 5,028 | 60.1 | ||
Conservative | S Hoare | 3,342 | 39.9 | ||
Majority | 1,686 | 20.2 | |||
Turnout | 8,370 | 85.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Walpole | 2,630 | |||
Conservative | Sir Edmund Lacon | 2,563 | |||
Liberal | E R Wodehouse | 2,235 | |||
Liberal | R T Gurdon | 2,078 | |||
Majority | |||||
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ Obituary of Bert Hazell in The Independent by Tam Dalyell; 22 January 2009 Archived 25 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "New Conservative candidate chosen for north Norfolk". Eastern Daily Press.
- ↑ "Ann Steward's website". Conservative Party.
- ↑ "Mr Baker's website". UKIP.
- ↑ "Denise Burke's bio". Labour Party.
- ↑ http://northnorfolk.greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/11/26/mike-macartney-filgate-announced-as-north-norfolk-green-party-parliamentary-candidate/
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election 2010: Norfolk North". BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
Sources
- Iain Dale, ed. (2003). The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
- The Times House of Commons 1945. The Times. 1945.
- The Times House of Commons 1950. The Times. 1950.
- The Times House of Commons 1955. The Times. 1955.
Coordinates: 52°53′N 1°10′E / 52.89°N 1.17°E