North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of North Cornwall in Cornwall for the 2010 general election.
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Location of Cornwall within England.
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| County | Cornwall |
| Electorate | 68,206 (December 2010) |
| Major settlements | Bodmin, Bude, Camelford, Launceston, Padstow and Wadebridge |
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| Created | 1918 |
| Member of parliament | Scott Mann (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Launceston |
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| European Parliament constituency | South West England |
Coordinates: 50°41′20″N 4°35′38″W / 50.689°N 4.594°W
North Cornwall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Scott Mann, a Conservative.
This constituency was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918.
With exceptions in 1997 and 2001 the seat's margin of victory has been low, less than 20% of the vote; and consistently won by and fought between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrat's candidate (or predecessor party in the latter case). In 1997 and 2001 the seat turned out strongly overall for the latter party.
A third-placed (other party) candidate has not polled more in North Cornwall than 16.38%, which took place in 1951. The seat saw three years of defection of its Liberal MP to join the post-World War II Attlee Ministry however in 2015 saw the lowest share of the Labour Party's vote nationally - reinforcing a consistent result by a great majority supporting left-wing politics to vote for a Liberal and later Liberal Democrat at general elections since the seat's inception.
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