King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = King's Lynn
Type = Borough
Year = 1298
Abolition = 1918
members = two (1298-1885), one (1885-1918)UK former constituency infobox
Name = Norfolk, King's Lynn
Type = County
Year = 1918
Abolition = 1974
members = one

King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1885, and one member thereafter. Until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough, after which the name was transferred to a county constituency. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election.

Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was one of the constituency's two MPs for almost the entirety of his Commons career, from 1702 until 1742.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

1298-1640

* 1555: Sir Nicholas L'Estrange
* 1559: Thomas Hogan
* 1563-1567: Richard L'Estrange
* 1563-1577: (Sir) Robert Bell
* 1580-1581: John Peyton
* 1601: Sir Robert Mansell
* 1604-1611: Thomas Oxburgh
* 1604-1611: Robert Hitcham
* 1621-1622: Matthew Clerke
* 1621-1622: John Wallis

1640-1832

1885-1974

Notes

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

Election box begin
title=King's Lynn by-election, 1943Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Lord Fermoy
votes = 10,696
percentage = 54.2
change = +4.2Election box candidate
party = Independent Labour
candidate = Frederick Wise
votes = 9,027
percentage = 45.8
change = N/AElection box majority
votes = 1,669
percentage = 8.4
change = −7.1Election box turnout
votes = 9,723
percentage = 39.8
change = −31.9Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing =

References

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*F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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* "The Constitutional Year Book for 1913" (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
* J E Neale, "The Elizabethan House of Commons" (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
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