Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Great Yarmouth
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk
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Location of Norfolk within England
CountyNorfolk
Electorate70,526 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created1885
Member of ParliamentBrandon Lewis (Conservative)
SeatsOne
1640–1868
SeatsTwo
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Replaced byEast Suffolk
North Norfolk
1295–1640
SeatsOne
Type of constituencyBorough constituency

Great Yarmouth is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has had Brandon Lewis, Chairman of the Conservative Party as the MP who has held the seat since the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

1918-1950: The County Borough of Great Yarmouth.

1950-1955: 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.

1955-1974: As 1950 but with redrawn boundaries.

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 Fenn[2]
1397 (Jan) Richard Cley Hugh Fenn[2]
1397 (Sep) Ralph Ramsey William Oxney[2]
1399 John Beketon Hugh 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 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Miles Corbet Parliamentarian rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | 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 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Colonel William Goffe style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Dunn
1656 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles George Cook rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Burton
January 1659
May 1659 Great Yarmouth was unrepresented in the restored Rump
April 1660 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Potts rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir William D'Oyly
1661 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir William Coventry
1678 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Medowe
February 1679 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Huntingdon
August 1679 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George England
1681 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir James Johnson
1685 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir William Cook style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Friend
1689 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George England style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Samuel Fuller
1698 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Nicholson
January 1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Samuel Fuller
November 1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Burton rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Nicholson
1702 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Benjamin England
1708 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Roger Townshend rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Ferrier
1709 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nathaniel Symonds
1710 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George England
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Horatio Townshend
1722 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Charles Townshend rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Horatio Walpole
1723 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Townshend
1734 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | (Sir) Edward Walpole[9]
1738 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Roger Townshend
1747 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Charles Townshend
1756 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Townshend
1768 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Richard Walpole
1784 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Captain Sir John Jervis[10] rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Beaufoy
1790 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Townshend
1795 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Brigadier Stephens Howe
May 1796 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Lord Charles Townshend
killed by brother, 1796
October 1796 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Major-General William Loftus style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Jodrell
1802 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge[11] style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Jervis
1806 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Edward Harbord style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Dr Stephen Lushington Whig
1808 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Giffin Wilson
1812 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Loftus style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edmund Knowles Lacon
1818 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Thomas Anson Whig rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Rumbold Whig[12][13][14][15]
1819 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Hon. George Anson Whig
1835 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Baring Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | W. Mackworth Praed Conservative
1837 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Rumbold Whig[12][13][14][15] style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | William Wilshere Whig[13]
1847 [16] style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Arthur Lennox Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Octavius Coope Conservative
1848 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joseph Sandars Conservative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Charles Rumbold Whig[12][13][14][15]
1852 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Edmund Lacon Conservative
March 1857[17] style="background-color: Template:Independent Liberal/meta/color" | William McCullagh Independent Liberal[18][19][20] style="background-color: Template:Radicals (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Watkin Radical[21][22][23]
August 1857 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | Adolphus William Young Whig style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | John Mellor Whig[24][25]
1859 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Edmund Lacon, Bt Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Henry Stracey, Bt Conservative
1865 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Goodson Conservative
1868 Constituency disfranchished for corruption

MPs 1885–1950

  • 1885: Constituency revived, electing only a single member
Election Member[8] Party
1885 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Henry Tyler Conservative
1892 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Marshall Moorsom Liberal
1895 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir John Colomb Conservative
1906 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | (Sir) Arthur Fell Conservative
1922 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Harbord Liberal
1924 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Frank Meyer Conservative
1929 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Arthur Harbord Liberal
1931 style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | Liberal National
1941 by-election style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | Percy Jewson Liberal National
1945 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 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 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ernest Kinghorn Labour
1951 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Fell Conservative
1966 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hugh Gray Labour
1970 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Fell Conservative
Feb 1974 Constituency renamed Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth County Constituency

MPs since 1974

Election Member[8] Party
Feb 1974 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Fell Conservative
1983 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Michael Carttiss Conservative
1997 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Wright Labour
2010 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Brandon Lewis Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2017: Great Yarmouth[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brandon Lewis 23,901 54.1 +11.2
Labour Mike Smith-Clare 15,928 36.1 +7.0
UKIP Catherine Blaiklock 2,767 6.3 -16.8
Liberal Democrats James Joyce 987 2.2 -0.1
Green Harry Webb 563 1.3 -0.9
Majority 7,973 18.0
Turnout 44,349 62.1
Conservative hold Swing +1.6
General Election 2015: Great Yarmouth[27]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brandon Lewis[28] 19,089 42.9 -0.2
Labour Lara Norris[29] 12,935 29.1 -4.1
UKIP Alan Grey[30] 10,270 23.1 +18.3
Liberal Democrats James Joyce 1,030 2.3 -12.1
Green Harry Webb[31] 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[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Brandon Lewis 18,571 43.1 +5.0
Labour Tony Wright 14,295 33.2 -12.4
Liberal Democrats 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[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tony Wright 18,850 45.6 −4.8
Conservative Mark Fox 15,795 38.2 −0.9
Liberal Democrats 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[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tony Wright 20,344 50.4 -3.0
Conservative Charles Reynolds 15,780 39.1 +3.5
Liberal Democrats 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[35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tony Wright 26,084 53.4 +15.4
Conservative Michael Carttiss 17,416 35.6 -12.3
Liberal Democrats Derek Wood 5,381 11.0 -2.6
Majority 8,668 17.8 N/A
Turnout 43,651 71.2 -6.7
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1992: Great Yarmouth[36][37]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Carttiss 25,505 47.9 −3.8
Labour Barbara Baughan 20,196 38.0 +6.8
Liberal Democrats Malcolm Scott 7,225 13.6 −3.5
Natural Law 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[38][39]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Carttiss 25,336 51.7
Labour John Cannell 15,253 31.1
SDP Stuart Maxwell 8,387 17.1
Majority 10,083 20.6
Turnout 74.5
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Great Yarmouth[40][41]
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[42]
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[43]
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[44]
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[45]
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[46]
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[47]
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[47]
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[47]
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[47]
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[48]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Kinghorn 19,131 44.5
Conservative Edward 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[49]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ernest Kinghorn 10,079 55.8
National Liberal Percy Jewson 7,974 44.2
Majority 2,105 11.7
Turnout 69.8
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Great Yarmouth[47]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Arthur Harbord 16,998 59.3
Labour John Lewis 11,658 40.7
Majority 5,340 18.6
Turnout 76.4
National Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1931: Great Yarmouth[50]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal 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 Frank Meyer 11,570 38.5 −6.6
Labour George Francis Johnson 5,347 17.8 +3.4
Majority 1,577 5.2 N/A
Turnout 30,064 83.1 +3.2
Registered electors 36,170
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +4.9
General Election 1924: Great Yarmouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Frank 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 N/A
Turnout 22,739 79.9 +0.7
Registered electors 28,447
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +9.0
General Election 1923: Great Yarmouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Arthur Harbord 11,416 51.8 +5.7
Unionist 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 22,046 79.2 +0.2
Registered electors 27,844
Liberal hold Swing +4.5
General Election 1922: Great Yarmouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Arthur Harbord 9,836 46.1 +6.4
Unionist Chichester Crookshank 8,917 41.8 −4.8
Labour Arthur Whiting 2,574 12.1 −0.7
Majority 919 4.3 N/A
Turnout 21,327 79.0 +20.2
Registered electors 26,985
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +5.6

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Great Yarmouth
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Arthur Fell 6,741 46.6 −5.7
Liberal *J. Havelock Wilson 5,734 39.7 −8.0
Labour William McConnell 1,848 12.8 N/A
Independent ** William H Dawson 125 0.9 N/A
Majority 1,007 6.9 +2.3
Turnout 14,448 58.8 −25.3
Registered electors 24,585
Unionist hold Swing +1.2
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

* Wilson - who stood as a 'Patriotic Trade Unionist's and Seamen's' candidate - supported the Coalition Government and was supported by the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union. He claimed to have been adopted by both the Liberal Party and National Democratic and Labour Party, but only appeared on the former's official list. ** Dawson initially was endorsed by the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers who then repudiated him.

Election results 1885-1918

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Great Yarmouth [51][52][53]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Henry Tyler 2,661 51.9 N/A
Liberal Cecil Norton 2,466 48.1 N/A
Majority 195 3.8 N/A
Turnout 5,127 73.8 N/A
Registered electors 6,949
Conservative win (new seat)
Norton
General Election 1886: Great Yarmouth [51][52]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Henry Tyler 2,977 59.7 +7.8
Liberal Cecil Norton 2,011 40.3 -7.8
Majority 966 19.4 +15.6
Turnout 4,988 71.8 -2.0
Registered electors 6,949
Conservative hold Swing +7.8

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Great Yarmouth [51][52]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Marshall Moorsom 2,972 52.4 +12.1
Conservative Henry Tyler 2,704 47.6 -12.1
Majority 268 4.8 N/A
Turnout 5,676 71.4 -0.4
Registered electors 7,947
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +12.1
General Election 1895: Great Yarmouth [51][52][54]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Colomb 3,528 54.9 +7.3
Liberal James Marshall Moorsom 2,893 45.1 -7.3
Majority 635 9.8 N/A
Turnout 6,421 78.9 +7.5
Registered electors 8,139
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +7.3

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Great Yarmouth [51][52][54]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Colomb Unopposed
Conservative hold
General Election 1906: Great Yarmouth [51][52]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arthur Fell 4,071 51.5 N/A
Liberal Martin White 3,835 48.5 N/A
Majority 236 3.0 N/A
Turnout 7,906 86.2 N/A
Registered electors 9,169
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Great Yarmouth [51][55]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arthur Fell 4,459 52.7 +1.2
Liberal James Edward Platt 3,998 47.3 -1.2
Majority 461 5.4 +2.4
Turnout 88.4 +2.2
Conservative hold Swing +1.2
General Election December 1910: Great Yarmouth [51][55]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Arthur Fell 4,210 52.3 -0.4
Liberal James Edward Platt 3,837 47.7 +0.4
Majority 373 4.6 -0.8
Turnout 84.1 -4.3
Conservative hold Swing -0.4

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Election results 1832-1868

Elections in the 1850s

General Election 1852: Great Yarmouth (2 seats)[56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edmund Lacon 611 28.2
Whig Charles Rumbold 547 25.3
Independent Liberal William McCullagh 521 24.1
Radical Charles Napier[57][58][59][60] 486 22.4
Turnout 1,083 (est) 86.7 (est)
Registered electors 1,249
Majority 64 3.0
Conservative hold Swing
Majority 26 1.2 N/A
Whig gain from Conservative Swing
General Election 1857: Great Yarmouth (2 seats)[56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal William McCullagh 609 28.1 +4.0
Radical Edward Watkin 590 27.2 +4.8
Conservative Edmund Lacon 521 24.0 +9.9
Conservative Charles Smyth Vereker[61] 451 20.8 +6.7
Turnout 1,086 (est) 83.0 (est) −3.7
Registered electors 1,308
Majority 19 0.9 N/A
Independent Liberal gain from Conservative Swing −2.2
Majority 61 2.8 N/A
Radical gain from Whig Swing −1.8

The election was declared void on petition due to bribery by McCullagh and Watkin's agents, causing a by-election.[62]

By-election, 10 August 1857: Great Yarmouth (2 seats)[56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig Adolphus William Young Unopposed
Whig John Mellor Unopposed
Whig gain from Independent Liberal
Whig gain from Radical
General Election 1859: Great Yarmouth (2 seats)[56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edmund Lacon 699 28.4 +4.4
Conservative Henry Stracey 659 26.8 +6.0
Liberal Edward Watkin 568 23.1 −4.1
Liberal Adolphus William Young 536 21.8 N/A
Majority 91 3.7 N/A
Turnout 1,231 (est) 92.8 (est) +9.8
Registered electors 1,326
Conservative gain from Independent Liberal Swing N/A
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +4.0

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1865: Great Yarmouth (2 seats)[56]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edmund Lacon 828 29.2 +0.8
Conservative James Goodson 784 27.7 +0.9
Liberal Alexander Brogden 634 22.4 −0.7
Liberal Philip Vanderbyl 589 20.8 −1.0
Majority 150 5.3 +1.6
Turnout 1,418 (est) 86.2 (est) −6.6
Registered electors 1,645
Conservative hold Swing +0.8
Conservative hold Swing +0.9

Extensive bribery was found in the seat and its right to return a member was lost. It was then incorporated into East Suffolk and North Norfolk.

See also

Notes and references

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  10. ^ Rear-Admiral from 1787
  11. ^ Rear-Admiral from 1804
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  16. ^ The result of the 1847 election was declared void on petition, and a by-election was held
  17. ^ 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.
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  29. ^ http://labourlist.org/2013/01/lara-norris-selected-in-great-yarmouth/
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