Norwich was a
borough constituency in
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
which was represented in the
House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, in the
House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and in the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom 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
Norwich South.
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
Treasurer of the Household
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.
* Caused by Peto's
resignation
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in order to go to the
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
and construct the
Grand Crimean Central Railway
The Grand Crimean Central Railway was a military railway built in 1855 during the Crimean War by Great Britain. Its purpose was to supply ammunition and provisions to Allied soldiers engaged in the Siege of Sevastopol who were stationed on a pl ...
.
[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
Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces
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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)
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* 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)
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Notes
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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