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The 2010 election saw political party infighting when the Labour candidate for North West Norfolk, Manish Sood [n 4] [2] stated in an interview with the local newspaper Lynn News that Gordon Brown was "the worst prime minister we have had in this country". This gained national attention and resulted in Labour disowning their candidate.
James Oliver Wild (born 5 January 1977) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Norfolk since 2019. [1] He has been Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury since November 2024, [2] and was Shadow Minister for Education from July to November 2024.
Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024).
Bellingham first entered Parliament at the 1983 election after winning the seat for North West Norfolk, having defeated the incumbent MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, who in 1981 was the only Conservative to defect to the newly formed SDP. He held his seat until being defeated during the 1997 election.
The region of North West England is divided into 73 parliamentary constituencies, of which 34 are borough constituencies and 39 are county constituencies. Since the 2024 general election, 65 are represented by Labour MPs, 3 by Conservative MPs, 3 by Liberal Democrat MPs, 1 by the Speaker, and 1 by an Independent MP. Constituencies Further information: 2024 United Kingdom general election ...
For 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 ...
After unsuccessfully contesting West Ham North in 1964, Brocklebank-Fowler entered Parliament as a Conservative at the 1970 general election, representing the constituency of King's Lynn. This seat was abolished at the February 1974 general election, and Brocklebank-Fowler was elected for the new North West Norfolk seat. [2]
The seat was extended westwards, regaining Wells-next-the-Sea and areas comprising the former Rural District of Walsingham, including Fakenham, from North West Norfolk. Suburbs of Norwich, including Hellesdon and Sprowston, were transferred to Norwich North, and remaining southern areas, including Aylsham, to the new constituency of Mid Norfolk.