| Great Yarmouth County constituency |
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| Great Yarmouth shown within Norfolk, and Norfolk shown within England | |
| Created: | 1295, 1885 |
| MP: | Tony Wright |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Norfolk |
| EP constituency: | East of England |
Great Yarmouth is a 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.
There has been a Great Yarmouth constituency sending MPs every Parliament since the 13th century except between 1868 and 1885; it was a parliamentary borough until 1950, and has been a county constituency since then. Between 1950 and 1974, the constituency was called simply Yarmouth, and has been known informally by that name at other periods.
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Boundaries
The constituency covers the area around Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. Despite its rural area, there is a substantial amount of industry in Great Yarmouth, making the seat a marginal.
Members of Parliament
Great Yarmouth borough
Great Yarmouth was a 2-seat constituency from 1660 until 1868, when it was disenfranchised. It was recreated for the 1885 general election as a single-seat constituency.
1295-1640
- 1558-1559: William Barker
- 1563-1567: Thomas Timperley
- 1571: William Barker
- 1576-1581:
Edward Bacon - 1597-1601: Henry Hobart
- 1604-1611: Thomas Danatts
- 1604-1611: John Wheeler
- 1614: Theophilus Finch
- 1614: George Hardware
- 1621-1622: Benjamin Cowper
- 1621-1622: Edward Owner
- 1625: Edward Owner
- 1625-1626: Sir John Corbet
- 1628-1629: Miles Corbet
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1640-1868
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1640 | Miles Corbet | Parliamentarian | Edward Owner | Parliamentarian | ||
| November 1640 | ||||||
| December 1648 | Owner not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
| 1653 | Great Yarmouth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | Colonel William Goffe | Thomas Dunn | ||||
| 1656 | Charles George Cook | William Burton | ||||
| January 1659 | ||||||
| May 1659 | Great Yarmouth was unrepresented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Sir John Potts | Sir William D'Oyly | ||||
| 1661 | Sir William Coventry | |||||
| 1678 | Sir Thomas Medowe | |||||
| February 1679 | Richard Huntingdon | |||||
| August 1679 | George England | |||||
| 1681 | Sir James Johnson | |||||
| 1685 | Sir William Cook | John Friend | ||||
| 1689 | George England | Samuel Fuller | ||||
| 1698 | John Nicholson | |||||
| January 1701 | Samuel Fuller | |||||
| November 1701 | John Burton | John Nicholson | ||||
| 1702 | Benjamin England | |||||
| 1708 | Roger Townshend | Richard Ferrier | ||||
| 1709 | Nathaniel Symonds | |||||
| 1710 | George England | |||||
| 1715 | Horatio Townshend | |||||
| 1722 | Hon. Charles Townshend | Horatio Walpole | ||||
| 1723 | William Townshend | |||||
| 1734 | (Sir) Edward Walpole [1] | |||||
| 1738 | Roger Townshend | |||||
| 1747 | Hon. Charles Townshend | |||||
| 1756 | Charles Townshend | |||||
| 1768 | Hon. Richard Walpole | |||||
| 1784 | Captain Sir John Jervis [2] | Henry Beaufoy | ||||
| 1790 | Charles Townshend | |||||
| 1795 | Brigadier Stephens Howe | |||||
| May 1796 | Lord Charles Townshend | |||||
| October 1796 | Major-General William Loftus | Henry Jodrell | ||||
| 1802 | Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge [3] | Thomas Jervis | ||||
| 1806 | Hon. Edward Harbord | Dr Stephen Lushington | Whig | |||
| 1808 | Giffin Wilson | |||||
| 1812 | William Loftus | Edmund Knowles Lacon | ||||
| 1818 | Thomas Anson | Whig | Charles Edmund Rumbold | Whig | ||
| 1819 | Hon. George Anson | Whig | ||||
| 1835 | Thomas Baring | Conservative | Winthrop Mackworth Praed | Conservative | ||
| 1837 | Charles Edmund Rumbold | Whig | William Wilshere | Whig | ||
| 1847 [4] | Lord Arthur Lennox | Conservative | Octavius Edward Coope | Conservative | ||
| 1848 | Joseph Sandars | Conservative | Charles Edmund Rumbold | Whig | ||
| 1852 | Sir Edmund Lacon | Conservative | ||||
| March 1857 [5] | William Torrens McCullagh | Whig | Edward William Watkin | Whig | ||
| August 1857 | Adolphus William Young | Whig | John Mellor | Whig | ||
| 1859 | Sir Edmund Lacon | Conservative | Sir Henry Stracey | Conservative | ||
| 1865 | James Goodson | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | Constituency disfranchished for corruption | |||||
1885-1950
- 1885: Constituency revived, electing only a single member
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Sir Henry Whatley Tyler | Conservative | |
| 1892 | James Marshall Moorsom | Liberal | |
| 1895 | Sir John Colomb | Conservative | |
| 1906 | (Sir) Arthur Fell | Conservative | |
| 1922 | Arthur Harbord | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Frank Meyer | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Sir Arthur Harbord | Liberal | |
| 1931 | Liberal National | ||
| 1941 | Percy William Jewson | Liberal National | |
| 1945 | Ernest Kinghorn | Labour | |
| 1950 | Great Yarmouth borough abolished: new county constituency named Yarmouth | ||
Yarmouth division of Norfolk
1950-1974
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Ernest Kinghorn | Labour | |
| 1951 | Anthony Fell | Conservative | |
| 1966 | Hugh Gray | Labour | |
| 1970 | Anthony Fell | Conservative | |
| Feb 1974 | Constituency renamed Great Yarmouth | ||
Great Yarmouth County Constituency
Since 1974
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| February 1974 | Anthony Fell | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Michael Carttiss | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Tony Wright | Labour |
Notes
- ^ Knighted (KB), 1753
- ^ Rear-Admiral from 1787
- ^ Rear-Admiral from 1804
- ^ The result of the 1847 election was declared void on petition, and a by-election was held
- ^ The result of the 1857 election was declared void on petition, and writ for a by-election was issued. No by-election was necessary as only two candidates were nominated, and they were returned unopposed.
Election results
| Next United Kingdom general election: Great Yarmouth | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| UKIP | Alan Baugh | ||||
| Green | Ian Holman | ||||
| Conservative | Brandon Lewis | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Simon Partridge | ||||
| General Election 2005: Great Yarmouth | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Tony Wright | 18,850 | 45.6 | −4.8 | |
| Conservative | Mark Fox | 15,795 | 38.2 | −0.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Stephen Newton | 4,585 | 11.1 | +2.7 | |
| UKIP | Bertie Poole | 1,759 | 4.3 | +2.2 | |
| Legalise Cannabis | Michael Skipper | 389 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,055 | 7.4 | |||
| Turnout | 41,378 | 60.1 | +1.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −2.0 | |||
| General Election 2001: Great Yarmouth | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Tony Wright | 20,344 | 50.4 | -3.0 | |
| Conservative | Charles Reynolds | 15,780 | 39.1 | +3.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Maurice Leeke | 3,392 | 8.4 | -2.6 | |
| UKIP | Bertie Poole | 850 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,564 | 11.3 | |||
| Turnout | 40,366 | 58.3 | -13.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk
- Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)
References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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