West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

West Norfolk
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1832 (1832)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	two

West Norfolk or Norfolk Western (formally the "Western division of Norfolk") was a county constituency in the county of Norfolk, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.

The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, and abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Sir William Ffolkes, Bt			Sir Jacob Astley, Bt
1837		William Bagge	Conservative		William Chute
1847					Hon. Edward Coke
1852					George Bentinck	Conservative
1857		John Brampton Gurdon
1865		Sir William Bagge, Bt	Conservative		Hon. Thomas de Grey	Conservative
1871 by-election					George Bentinck	Conservative
1880		William Tyssen-Amherst	Conservative
1884 by-election					Clare Sewell Read	Conservative
1885	representation reduced to one member

Election results

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)