Mid Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

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Mid Norfolk County constituency
Mid Norfolk shown within Norfolk, and Norfolk shown within England
Created:	1885, 1983
MP:	Keith Simpson
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Norfolk
EP constituency:	East of England

Mid Norfolk is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Boundary review

Following a review of parliamentary representation in Norfolk, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency of Broadland based on the local government region of that name.

The new Broadland seat takes electoral wards from the existing Norfolk North seat and also this Mid Norfolk seat.

The new Mid Norfolk seat comprises the Breckland council wards from the old Mid Norfolk constituency added to a number of wards from around Wymondham that were part of South Norfolk constituency and are part of South Norfolk District Council.

The current MP for Mid Norfolk has been selected to fight the newly created Broadland constituency (Source)

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1885 – 1892: Robert Gurdon
• 1892 – 1895: Clement Higgins
• 1895: Robert Gurdon
• 1895 – 1906: Frederick Wilson
• 1906 – 1910: John Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse
• 1910 – 1918: William Boyle
• 1918: Neville Jodrell

Constituency abolished in 1918, but revived in 1983

• 1983 – 1997: Richard Ryder, Conservative
• 1997 – "present": Keith Simpson, Conservative

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Freeman
	Labour	Elizabeth Hughes

General Election 2005: Mid Norfolk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Simpson	23,564	43.1	−1.7
	Labour	Daniel Zeichner	16,004	29.2	−6.9
	Liberal Democrat	Vivienne Clifford-Jackson	12,988	23.7	+9.2
	UK Independence	Simon Fletcher	2,178	4.0	+1.5
Majority			7,560	13.8
Turnout			54,734	67.0	−1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.6

General Election 2001: Mid Norfolk
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Keith Simpson	23,519	44.8	+5.2
	Labour	Daniel Zeichner	18,957	36.1	-1.2
	Liberal Democrat	Vivienne Clifford-Jackson	7,621	14.5	-0.5
	UK Independence	Stuart Agnew	1,333	2.5	N/A
	Green	Peter Reeve	1,118	2.1	-0.1
Majority			4,562	8.7
Turnout			52,548	68.1	-8.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] References

1. ^ Mid Norfolk, UKPollingReport

[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)