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The constituency consisted of the historic county of Norfolk in the East of England, excluding the city of Norwich which had the status of a county corporate after 1404. . (Although Norfolk contained four other parliamentary boroughs – Castle Rising, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Thetford – each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Norfolk was a ...
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 ...
Since 1290, the Parliamentary County of Norfolk along with all other English counties regardless of size or population, had elected 2 MPs (Knights of the Shire) to the House of Commons. The county also included five Parliamentary Boroughs , namely Castle Rising , Great Yarmouth (partly in Suffolk), King's Lynn , Norwich and Thetford , all ...
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.
South West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) W. Waveney Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
North Norfolk is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Steffan Aquarone, a Liberal Democrat. [ n 2 ] Constituency profile
East Norfolk was a constituency in the county of Norfolk that returned two members of parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1868. It was re-established in 1885 with representation of one member.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the three two-member county divisions of Norfolk were replaced with six single-member divisions, including the newly created Mid Division of Norfolk. It was abolished at the next redistribution of seats under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act 1918 , when it was absorbed by ...