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Thetford was a constituency of the British House of Commons.It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.It was disenfranchised under the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868, which had resulted in a net increase of seven seats in Scotland, offset by the disenfranchisement of seven English Boroughs.
South West Norfolk is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Terry Jermy of the Labour Party.It was previously represented by Liz Truss of the Conservative Party (the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister in British history; serving as head of government for 49 days in 2022) between 2010 and 2024.
Thetford and the area comprising the former Rural District of Wayland, including Attleborough, which had been included in the District of Breckland, were transferred to the redrawn South West Norfolk constituency.
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 ...
The county also included five Parliamentary Boroughs, namely Castle Rising, Great Yarmouth (partly in Suffolk), King's Lynn, Norwich and Thetford, all returning two MPs (burgesses) each. 1832 The Reform Act 1832 radically changed the representation of the House of Commons, with the county being divided into the Eastern and Western Divisions ...
Thetford is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England.It is on the A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest.The civil parish, covering an area of 29.55 km 2 (11.41 sq mi), in 2011 had a population of 24,340.
An election took place in the East Anglia constituency of South West Norfolk on 4 July 2024, as part of the 2024 general election. Liz Truss, the shortest-serving British prime minister in history, was standing for re-election as MP.
Members of the Parliament of England for Thetford (7 P) G. Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Thetford (5 P) U.