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 | ||
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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.
Former name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Current name | Boundaries 2010–present |
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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
Containing electoral wards from Broadland
Containing electoral wards in Great Yarmouth
Containing electoral wards in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Containing electoral wards in North Norfolk
Containing electoral wards in Norwich
Containing electoral wards in South Norfolk
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [6]
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 |
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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 |
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative 1 | 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 Democrat 2 | 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
Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative 1 | 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 Democrat 2 | 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
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 |
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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 |
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.
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 09 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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 |
North Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Duncan Baker, a Conservative.
Norwich North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2009 by Conservative Chloe Smith.
North West Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by James Wild, a Conservative.
Mid Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by George Freeman, a Conservative.
Waveney is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Peter Aldous, a Conservative. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Broadland is a Norfolk constituency, which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since the 2019 general election by Jerome Mayhew, a Conservative.
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