List of parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

The county of Norfolk is divided into 9 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 7 county constituencies.

Constituencies

  Conservative †   Labour ‡   Liberal Democrat ¤   Reform UK ±   Green ¥

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
Broadland and Fakenham CC 72,907 719   Jerome Mayhew †   Iain Simpson ‡
Great Yarmouth CC 70,077 1,426   Rupert Lowe ±   Keir Cozens ‡
Mid Norfolk CC 71,060 3,054   George Freeman †   Michael Rosen ‡
North Norfolk CC 70,719 2,585   Steffan Aquarone ¤   Duncan Baker †
North West Norfolk CC 75,200 4,954   James Wild †   Tim Leaver ‡
Norwich North BC 71,441 10,850   Alice Macdonald ‡   Charlotte Salomon †
Norwich South BC 73,301 13,239   Clive Lewis ‡   Jamie Osborn ¥
South Norfolk CC 69,837 2,826   Ben Goldsborough ‡   Poppy Simister-Thomas †
South West Norfolk CC 72,496 630   Terry Jermy ‡   Liz Truss †
Waveney Valley CC[nb 3] 70,540 5,593   Adrian Ramsay ¥   Richard Rout †

2024 boundary changes

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 were 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

  • 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

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

2024

The 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
Conservative 132,494 28.70% Decrease28.9% 3 Decrease5
Labour 132,398 28.68% Increase2.8% 4 Increase3
Reform 86,482 18.7% Increase18.0% 1 Increase1
Liberal Democrats 50,962 11.0% Decrease1.4% 1 Increase1
Greens 50,249 10.9% Increase8.4 1 Increase1
Others 8,999 1.9% Increase1.0% 0 0
Total 461,584 100.0 10

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 2024
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

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
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

1885-1910

  • 1885
    1885
  • 1886
    1886
  • 1892
    1892
  • 1895
    1895
  • 1900
    1900
  • 1906
    1906
  • Jan 1910
    Jan 1910
  • Dec 1910
    Dec 1910

1918-1945

  • 1918
    1918
  • 1922
    1922
  • 1923
    1923
  • 1924
    1924
  • 1929
    1929
  • 1931
    1931
  • 1935
    1935
  • 1945
    1945

1950-1979

  • 1950
    1950
  • 1951
    1951
  • 1955
    1955
  • 1959
    1959
  • 1964
    1964
  • 1966
    1966
  • 1970
    1970
  • 1974 Feb
    1974 Feb
  • 1974 Oct
    1974 Oct
  • 1979
    1979

1983-2019

  • 1983
    1983
  • 1987
    1987
  • 1992
    1992
  • 1997
    1997
  • 2001
    2001
  • 2005
    2005
  • 2010
    2010
  • 2015
    2015
  • 2017
    2017
  • 2019
    2019

2024-present

  • 2024
    2024

Timeline

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

Historical representation by party

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   Reform

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 09 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024
Broadland / Broadland & Fakenham ('24) Simpson Mayhew
Mid Norfolk Ryder Simpson Freeman
South Norfolk MacGregor Bacon Goldsborough
South West Norfolk Hawkins Shephard Fraser Truss Jermy
North Norfolk Howell Prior Lamb Baker Aquarone
North West Norfolk Bellingham Turner Bellingham Wild
Great Yarmouth Carttiss Wright B. Lewis Lowe
Norwich North Thompson Gibson Smith Macdonald
Norwich South Powley Garrett Clarke Wright C. Lewis

See also

Notes

  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
  3. ^ Cross-County constituency with Suffolk
  4. ^ 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

  1. ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b c d "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2014". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  3. ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary constituency changes affect Norfolk/Suffolk border". BBC News. 8 November 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  5. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 263-293. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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