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Norfolk North (UK Parliament constituency)

North Norfolk
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of North Norfolk in Norfolk.
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Location of Norfolk within England.
County Norfolk
Electorate 68,277 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created 1868
Member of parliament Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat)
Number of members one (two 1868-1885)
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency East of England

North 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.

Formerly a safe seat for the Conservatives, it has been represented by the Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb since 2001. This marked the first time that a Liberal aligned candidate had won a seat in Norfolk since 1929. This was to be followed by the election of Simon Wright in Norwich South in 2010. While Wright's success was short-lived (he was defeated in 2015), Lamb has retained his seat, which is after the 2015 election was one of only two Liberal Democrat seats in southern England, and one of only eight in the whole UK. In the 2017 election, in which the Liberal Democrats lost five of their nine seats, North Norfolk was one of the four held. Although the seat had been Labour for 25 years since World War II, Labour have slumped to a distant third in recent years, and came fourth in 2015, and last in a narrower field of three candidates in 2017.

North Norfolk was described by the Earl of Leicester as "the one constituency in England where, in 1964, it was so feudal that it had to be explained to the electors that the ballot was secret."


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