Norwich was a

borough constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by ...

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which was represented in the

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from 1298 to 1707, in the

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from 1707 to 1800, and in the

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from 1801 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election. Consisting of the city of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

in Norfolk, it returned two members of parliament (MPs), elected by the bloc vote system. It was replaced in 1950 by two new single-member constituencies, Norwich North and

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Members of Parliament

1298–1660

1640–1950

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1880s

* Caused by Bullard being unseated on petition.

Elections in the 1870s

* Caused by Huddleston's appointment as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. This by-election was later declared void on petition, and the writ was suspended, leaving Norwich with one MP until 1880. * Caused by the previous by-election being declared void on petition. * Caused by Stracey's election being declared void on petition.

Elections in the 1860s

* Caused by both the 1859 general election and the June by-election being declared void on petition due to bribery.

Elections in the 1850s

* Caused by Keppel's appointment as

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. * Caused by Peto's

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in order to go to the

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and construct the

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.Faith, Nicholas ''The world the railways made'' The Bodley Head, London, 1990 p. 106

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1830s

* On petition, Scarlett was unseated and Smith was declared elected. * Wetherell and Sadler were proposed without their knowledge * Caused by Grant's appointment as

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References

*Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807

*D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) *''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808

* ''The Constitutional Year Book for 1913'' (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913) *F W S Craig, ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885'' (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) * * Maija Jansson (ed.), ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)'' (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) * J E Neale, ''The Elizabethan House of Commons'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) * Robert Walcott, ''English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956) *

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Norwich (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1298 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950 Politics of Norwich