North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

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North West Norfolk County constituency
North West Norfolk shown within Norfolk, and Norfolk shown within England
Created:	1885, 1974
MP:	Henry Bellingham
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Norfolk
EP constituency:	East of England

North West Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1885)
• 1885 — 1886: Joseph Arch, Liberal
• 1886 — 1892: Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
• 1892 — 1900: Joseph Arch, Liberal
• 1900 — 1912: Sir George White
• 1912 — 1918: Edward George Hemmerde
• Constituency abolished (1918)
• Constituency re-created (1974)
• 1974 — 1983: Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler Conservative up until 1981, and then Social Democratic Party
• 1983 — 1997: Henry Bellingham, Conservative
• 1997 — 2001: George Turner, Labour
• 2001 — "present": Henry Bellingham, Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: North West Norfolk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Bellingham	25,471	50.3	+1.8
	Labour	Damien Welfare	16,291	32.2	-9.5
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Higginson	7,026	13.9	+5.5
	UK Independence	Michael Stone	1,861	3.7	+2.3
Majority			9,180	18.1	+11.3
Turnout			50,649	61.6	-3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.7

General Election 2001: North West Norfolk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Bellingham	24,846	48.5	+7.0
	Labour	George Turner	21,361	41.7	-2.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Mack	4,292	8.4	-1.2
	UK Independence	Ian Durrant	704	1.4	N/A
Majority			3,485	6.8
Turnout			51,203	65.1	-9.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)