Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

Great Yarmouth
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Location of Norfolk within England.
County	Norfolk
Electorate	70,526 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1295, 1885
Member of parliament	Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament 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.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The County Borough of Great Yarmouth.

1950-1974: The County Borough of Great Yarmouth, and the Rural District of Blofield and Flegg except the civil parishes of Great and Little Plumstead, Postwick, and Thorpe-next-Norwich.

1974-1983: The County Borough of Great Yarmouth, and the Rural District of Blofield and Flegg.

1983-present: The Borough of Great Yarmouth.

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.

MPs 1295–1640

Year	First member	Second member
1321	John Perburn
1324	John Perburn
1361	Hugh Fastolf
1366	Hugh Fastolf
1373	Hugh Fastolf
1377 (Jan)	Hugh Fastolf
1377 (Oct)	Hugh Fastolf
1385	Ralph Ramsey
1386	Ralph Ramsey	John Beketon[2]
1388 (Feb)	Ralph Ramsey	John Ellis[2]
1388 (Sep)	Ralph Ramsey	John Hacon[2]
1390 (Jan)	Ralph Ramsey	John Ellis[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Ralph Ramsey	John Hacon[2]
1393	John Hacon	John Ellis[2]
1394
1395	Ralph Ramsey	Hugh atte Fenn[2]
1397 (Jan)	Richard Cley	Hugh atte Fenn[2]
1397 (Sep)	Ralph Ramsey	William Oxney[2]
1399	John Beketon	Hugh Atte Fenn[2]
1401
1402
1404 (Jan)	Roger Adams	Geoffrey Pamping[2]
1404 (Oct)
1406	Robert Ellis	Henry Rafman[2]
1407	Robert Clere	Peter atte Fenn[2]
1410	William Parker	Alexander atte Gapp[2]
1411	Nicholas Cates	Peter Atte Fenn[2]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	William Oxney	Alexander atte Gapp[2]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	Geoffrey Pamping	Robert Ellis[2]
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	Henry S[pitling]	Richard [?Ellis][2]
1419	William Colkirk	John Cranley[2]
1420	Thomas Dengaine	Robert Ellis[2]
1421 (May)	Thomas Covehithe	Robert Ellis[2]
1421 (Dec)	Richard Ellis	Robert Cupper[2]
1455	Richard Southwell[3]
1478	John Paston[3]
1491	Robert Crowmer[4]
1504	Thomas More[5]
1510-1523	No names known[6]
1529	Humphrey Wingfield	John Ladde, died and replaced 1353 or 1354 by Philip Bernard[6]
1536	?	?
1539	?	?
1542	Sir Humphrey Wingfield	William Burgh[6]
1545	Sir William Woodhouse	Robert Eyre[6]
1547	Sir William Woodhouse	Robert Eyre[6]
1553 (Mar)	Sir William Woodhouse	Nicholas Firmage[6]
1553 (Oct)	Robert Eyre	Simon More[6]
1554 (Apr)	William Bishop	John Echard[6]
1554 (Nov)	Thomas Hunt	William Mayhew[6]
1555	Nicholas Fen	Cornelius Bright[6]
1558	Sir Thomas Woodhouse	William Barker[7]
1558/9	Sir Thomas Woodhouse	William Barker[7]
1562	William Grice	Thomas Timperley[7]
1571	William Barker	William Grice[7]
1572	William Grice	John Bacon, died and replaced Feb 1576 by Edward Bacon[7]
1584	William Grice	Thomas Damet[7]
1586	William Grice	Thomas Damet[7]
1588	John Stubbe or Stubbs	Roger Drury[7]
1593	Thomas Damet	John Felton[7]
1597	Henry Hobart	John Felton[7]
1601	Henry Hobart	Thomas Damet[7]
1604–1611	Thomas Damet	John Wheeler
1614	Theophilus Finch	George Hardware
1621–1622	Benjamin Cooper	Edward Owner
1624	Benjamin Cooper	George Hardware
1625	Sir John Corbet	Edward Owner
1626	Sir John Corbet	Thomas Johnson
1628	Sir John Corbet	Sir John Wentworth
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened

MPs 1640–1868

Election		First member[8]	First party		Second member[8]	Second party
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[9]
1738		Roger Townshend
1747		Hon. Charles Townshend
1756		Charles Townshend
1768					Hon. Richard Walpole
1784		Captain Sir John Jervis[10]			Henry Beaufoy
1790		Charles Townshend
1795					Brigadier Stephens Howe
May 1796		Lord Charles Townshend killed by brother, 1796
October 1796		Major-General William Loftus			Henry Jodrell
1802		Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge[11]			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 [12]		Lord Arthur Lennox	Conservative		Octavius Edward Coope	Conservative
1848		Joseph Sandars	Conservative		Charles Edmund Rumbold	Whig
1852		Sir Edmund Lacon	Conservative
March 1857[13]		William Torrens McCullagh	Whig		Edward William Watkin	Whig
August 1857		Adolphus William Young	Whig		John Mellor	Whig
1859		Sir Edmund Lacon, Bt	Conservative		Sir Henry Stracey, Bt	Conservative
1865					James Goodson	Conservative
1868	Constituency disfranchished for corruption

MPs 1885–1950

• 1885: Constituency revived, electing only a single member

Election		Member[8]	Party
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 by-election		Percy William Jewson	Liberal National
1945		Ernest Kinghorn	Labour
1950	Great Yarmouth borough abolished: new county constituency named Yarmouth

Yarmouth division of Norfolk

MPs 1950–1974

Election		Member[8]	Party
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

MPs since 1974

Election		Member[8]	Party
Feb 1974		Anthony Fell	Conservative
1983		Michael Carttiss	Conservative
1997		Tony Wright	Labour
2010		Brandon Lewis	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Great Yarmouth^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Brandon Lewis[15]	19,089	42.9	-0.2
	Labour	Lara Norris[16]	12,935	29.1	-4.1
	UKIP	Alan Grey[17]	10,270	23.1	+18.3
	Liberal Democrat	James Joyce	1,030	2.3	-12.1
	Green	Harry Webb[18]	978	2.2	+1.2
	CISTA	Samuel Townley	167	0.4	+0.4
Majority			6,154	13.8	+3.9
Turnout			44,469	63.7	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.95

General Election 2010: Great Yarmouth^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Brandon Lewis	18,571	43.1	+5.0
	Labour	Tony Wright	14,295	33.2	-12.4
	Liberal Democrat	Simon Partridge	6,188	14.4	+3.3
	UKIP	Alan Baugh	2,066	4.8	+0.5
	BNP	Bosco Tann	1,421	3.3	N/A
	Green	Laura Biggart	416	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Margaret McMahon-Morris	100	0.2	N/A
Majority			4,276	9.9
Turnout			43,057	61.2	+1.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Great Yarmouth^[20]

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^[21]

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

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Great Yarmouth^[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Tony Wright	26,084	53.4
	Conservative	Michael Carttiss	17,416	35.6
	Liberal Democrat	Derek Wood	5,381	11.0
Majority			8,668	17.8
Turnout			43,651	71.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Great Yarmouth^[23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Carttiss	25,505	47.9	−3.8
	Labour	Barbara Baughan	20,196	38.0	+6.8
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Scott	7,225	13.6	−3.5
	Natural Law	Ms. P Larkin	284	0.5	N/A
Majority			5,309	10.0	−10.6
Turnout			53,210	77.9	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−5.3

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Great Yarmouth^[25][26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Carttiss	25,336	51.7
	Labour	J Cannell	15,253	31.1
	Social Democratic	S Maxwell	8,387	17.1
Majority			10,083	20.6
Turnout				74.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Great Yarmouth^[27][28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Michael Carttiss	22,423	50.5
	Labour	O Lloyd	11,223	25.3
	Liberal	E Minett	10,803	24.3
Majority			11,200	25.2
Turnout				70.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Great Yarmouth^[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	28,066	50.4
	Labour	Patricia Hollis	20,838	37.4
	Liberal	E Minett	6,112	11.0
	National Front	T Holmes	640	1.1
Majority			7,228	13.0
Turnout				77.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Great Yarmouth^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	22,573	43.3
	Labour	Patricia Hollis	20,313	39.0
	Liberal	PR Coleby	9,250	17.7
Majority			2,260	4.33
Turnout				73.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Great Yarmouth^[31]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	24,711	43.4
	Labour	Patricia Hollis	19,774	34.7
	Liberal	PR Coleby	12,524	22.0
Majority			4,397	8.7
Turnout				81.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Yarmouth^[32]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	23,088	49.6
	Labour	Hugh Gray	19,931	42.8
	Liberal	Joan Knott	3,523	7.6
Majority			3,157	6.8
Turnout				77.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Yarmouth^[33]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Hugh Gray	22,296	50.9
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	21,499	49.1
Majority			797	1.8
Turnout				79.8
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1964: Yarmouth^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	20,310	46.8
	Labour	Stanley Clinton Davis	18,381	42.4
	Liberal	David Spreckley	4,680	10.8
Majority			1,929	4.4
Turnout				80.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Yarmouth^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	22,827	54.3
	Labour	Stanley Clinton Davis	19,248	45.7
Majority			3,579	8.5
Turnout				79.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Yarmouth^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	21,317	51.1
	Labour	Ernest Kinghorn	20,400	48.9
Majority			917	2.2
Turnout				79.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Yarmouth^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Anthony Fell	22,180	51.2
	Labour	Ernest Kinghorn	21,165	48.8
Majority			1,015	2.3
Turnout				83.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1950: Yarmouth^[35]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Kinghorn	19,131	44.5
	Conservative	Edward Conrad Baker	17,969	41.8
	Liberal	Ronald Thomas Archibald Cornwell	5,854	13.6
Majority			1,162	2.7
Turnout				84.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Great Yarmouth^[36]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Ernest Kinghorn	10,079	55.8
	Liberal National	Percy William Jewson	7,974	44.2
Majority			2,105	11.7
Turnout				69.8
	Labour gain from Liberal National		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Great Yarmouth^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	Arthur Harbord	16,998	59.3
	Labour	Dr John Lewis	11,658	40.7
Majority			5,340	18.6
Turnout				76.4
	Liberal National hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Great Yarmouth^[37]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal National	Arthur Harbord	21,008	78.6
	Labour	John Hanbury Martin	5,735	21.4
Majority			15,273	57.1
Turnout				72.1

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Great Yarmouth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Arthur Harbord	13,147	43.7	+3.2
	Unionist	Sir Frank Cecil Meyer	11,570	38.5	-6.6
	Labour	George Francis Johnson	5,347	17.8	+3.4
Majority			1,577	5.2	9.8
Turnout				83.1	+3.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+4.9

General Election 1924: Great Yarmouth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Frank Cecil Meyer	10,273	45.1	+6.6
	Liberal	Arthur Harbord	9,202	40.5	-11.3
	Labour	T G Tyler	3,264	14.4	+4.7
Majority			1,071	4.6	17.9
Turnout				79.9	+0.7
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.9

General Election 1923: Great Yarmouth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Arthur Harbord	11,416	51.8	+5.7
	Unionist	Sir James Allan Horne	8,492	38.5	-3.3
	Labour	Albert Wrigley	2,138	9.7	-2.4
Majority			2,924	13.3	+9.0
Turnout				79.2	+0.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.5

General Election 1922: Great Yarmouth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Arthur Harbord	9,836	46.1	+6.4
	Unionist	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	8,917	41.8	-4.8
	Labour	Arthur Whiting	2,574	12.1	-0.7
Majority			919	4.3	11.2
Turnout				79.0	+20.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+5.6

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Great Yarmouth

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Arthur Fell	6,741	46.6
	Liberal	J. Havelock Wilson	5,734	39.7
	Labour	William McConnell	1,848	12.8
	Independent	William H Dawson	125	0.9
Majority			1,007	6.9
Turnout				58.8
	Unionist hold		Swing

• Fell was endorsed by the Coalition Government. Wilson supported the Coalition Government and was supported by the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union. Dawson initially was endorsed by the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers who then repudiated him.

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk
• Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)

Notes and references

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4. The English Parliaments of Henry VII. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
5. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-13.
6. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-11.
7. "History of Parliament". Retrieved 2011-10-11.
8. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
9. Knighted (KB), 1753
10. Rear-Admiral from 1787
11. Rear-Admiral from 1804
12. The result of the 1847 election was declared void on petition, and a by-election was held
13. 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.
14. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
15. http://www.brandonlewis.co/local_news/brandon-lewis-re-selected-as-conservative-candidate-for-great-yarmouth/
16. http://labourlist.org/2013/01/lara-norris-selected-in-great-yarmouth/
17. "Local man Alan Grey selected as UKIP prospective parliamentary candidate". UKIP - Great Yarmouth.
18. Lucy Clapham. "Caister councillor, 21, to stand for Green Party in Great Yarmouth". Great Yarmouth Mercury.
19. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
20. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
21. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
22. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
23. "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
24. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
25. "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
26. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
27. "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
28. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
29. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
30. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
31. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
32. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
33. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
34. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
35. "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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