| Mid Norfolk County constituency |
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| 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.
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Boundaries
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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.[1]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1885–1918
| Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
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| 1885 | Robert Gurdon | Liberal | Gurdon was elected as a Liberal, but joined the Liberal Unionists when the party split | |
| 1886 | Liberal Unionist | |||
| 1892 | Clement Higgins | Liberal | Higgins was elected as a Liberal, but later joined the Liberal Unionists. He resigned his seat in 1895 | |
| ??? | Liberal Unionist | |||
| 1895 by-election | Robert Gurdon | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1895 | Frederick Wilson | Liberal | ||
| 1906 | John Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse | Liberal | ||
| 1910 (Jan) | William Boyle | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1918 by-election | Neville Jodrell | Conservative | ||
| 1918 | Constituency abolished, but re-established 1983 | |||
MPs since 1983
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1983 | Richard Ryder | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Keith Simpson | Conservative | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | George Freeman | ||||
| Labour | Elizabeth Hughes | ||||
| General Election 2005: Mid Norfolk | |||||
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| 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 | |
| UKIP | 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 | |||||
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| 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 | |
| UKIP | 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 | ||||
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