GREAT YARMOUTH (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'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.
For much of the twentieth century, the constituency was known simply as ''Yarmouth''.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

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 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.

★ 1885 – 1892: Sir Henry Whatley Tyler

★ 1892 – 1895: James Marshall Moorsom

★ 1895 – 1906: Sir John Charles Ready Colomb

★ 1906 – 1922: Sir Arthur Fell

★ 1922 – 1924: Sir Arthur Harbord

★ 1924 – 1929: Sir Frank Cecil Meyer

★ 1929 – 1941: Sir Arthur Harbord

★ 1941 – 1945: Percy William Jewson

★ 1945 – 1951: Ernest Kinghorn

★ 1951 – 1966: Anthony Fell, Conservative

★ 1966 – 1970: Hugh Gray
''Constituency renamed "Great Yarmouth"''

★ 1970 – 1983: Anthony Fell, Conservative

★ 1983 – 1997: Michael Carttiss, Conservative

★ 1997 – "present": Tony Wright, Labour

Election results

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk