King's Lynn (UK Parliament constituency)

King's Lynn
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–February 1974
Seatsone
Replaced byNorth West Norfolk
1298–1918
Seatstwo (1298–1885), one (1885–1918)
Type of constituencyBorough constituency

King's Lynn was a constituency in Norfolk which was represented continuously 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 February 1974 general election.

History

The Parliamentary Borough of King's Lynn, which was known as Lynn or Bishop's Lynn prior to 1537, returned two Members of Parliament until 1885, when its representation was reduced to one member by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. It was abolished as a Borough under the Representation of the People Act 1918 and was reconstituted as a Division of the Parliamentary County of Norfolk (from 1950, a County Constituency), absorbing the bulk of the abolished North Western Division. It was abolished for the February 1974 general election, being replaced by the re-established constituency of North West Norfolk.

Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, was an MP for the constituency for almost the entirety of his parliamentary career, from 1702 to 1742.

Boundaries and boundary changes

1885–1918

  • The existing parliamentary borough, and so much of the municipal borough of King's Lynn as was not already included in the parliamentary borough.[1]

1918–1950

  • The Borough of King's Lynn;
  • The Urban Districts of New Hunstanton and Walsoken;
  • The Rural Districts of Docking, Freebridge Lynn, King's Lynn, and Marshland (except the parishes of Outwell and Upwell); and
  • The Rural District of Downham parishes of Wiggenhall St Germans, Wiggenhall St Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, and Wiggenhall St Peter.[2]

1950–1974

  • The Municipal Borough of King's Lynn;
  • The Urban District of New Hunstanton; and
  • The Rural Districts of Docking, Freebridge Lynn, and Marshland.[3]

Minor changes to the boundary with South West Norfolk to align with boundaries of local authorities, which had been rationalised.  Also marginal changes to county boundaries with Isle of Ely and Parts of Holland.

Members of Parliament

MPs before 1640

Parliament First member Second member
1328 John de Swerdeston Roger de Buttele[4]
1335 William de Brinton[4]
1337 John de Swerdeston William de Secheford[4]
1338 Roger de Buttele Geoffrey Drewe[4]
1339 Thomas de Melcheburne[4]
1375 Robert Bathe John Waryn[4]
1377 John Dockyngg Thomas ...[4]
1378 Nicholas de Swerdeston Hugh de Ellyngham[4]
1379 John Brunham Thomas de Morton[4]
1380 Richard de Honton Henry de Betele[4]
1381 Thomas Drewe Thomas de Morton[4]
1382 John Brunham John Waryn[4]
1385 John de Brandon Thomas de Morton[4]
1386 Edmund Beleyeter Thomas Morton[5]
1388 (Feb) Henry Betley Thomas Morton[5]
1388 (Sep) Edmund Beleyeter Thomas Drew[5]
1390 (Jan) Robert Waterden John Wace[5]
1390 (Nov) John Wentworth Thomas Waterden[5]
1391 Robert Botkesham John Kepe[5]
1393 Thomas Morton Thomas Brigge[5]
1394 Thomas Morton Thomas Drew[5]
1395 Thomas Waterden John Brandon[5]
1397 (Jan) Thomas Drew John Brandon[5]
1397 (Sep) John Wentworth Roger Rawlin[5]
1399 Robert Botkesham Thomas Waterden[5]
1401 Robert Botkesham Thomas Waterden[5]
1402 Thomas Fawkes Robert Brunham[5]
1404 (Jan) Thomas Drew John Wentworth[5]
1404 (Oct) John Brandon Thomas Drew[5]
1406 Thomas Brigge Thomas Derham[5]
1407 William Lok John Wesenham[5]
1410 John Spicer John Brown[5]
1411 Bartholomew Sistern Philip Frank[5]
1413 (Feb) William Halyate John Tilney[5]
1413 (May) William Halyate John Tilney[5]
1414 (Apr) John Bilney John Tilney[5]
1414 (Nov) John Spicer Andrew Swanton[5]
1415 Thomas Brigge John Tilney[5]
1416 (Mar) John Spicer Thomas Brigge[5]
1416 (Oct) William Herford John Warner[5]
1417 Robert Brunham Thomas Hunt[5]
1419 Philip Frank Walter Curson[5]
1420 Thomas Brigge Andrew Swanton[5]
1421 (May) Bartholomew Sistern John Parmenter[5]
1421 (Dec) John Waterden Robert Brandon [5]
1510 Thomas Gibbon Francis Monford[6]
1512 Francis Monford Thomas Wythe[6]
1515 Robert Soome Thomas Wythe[6]
1523 Thomas Miller Richard Bewcher[6]
1529 Thomas Miller Richard Bewcher
replaced Oct 1535 by Robert Southwell[6]
1536 Robert Southwell William Coningsby[6]
1539 Thomas Waters Robert Southwell[6]
1542 Thomas Waters Thomas Miller[6]
1545 Edmund Grey Thomas Miller[6]
1547 Thomas Gawdy William Overend
replaced Jan 1549 by George Amyas[6]
1553 (Mar) Sir Richard Corbet John Walpole[6]
1553 (Oct) John Walpole Thomas Waters[6]
1554 (Apr) Thomas Waters William Overend[6]
1554 (Nov) Sir Thomas Moyle Thomas Waters[6]
1555 Sir Nicholas L'Estrange Thomas Waters[6]
1558 Ambrose Gilberd, died
and replaced Sep 1558 by William Telverton		 Thomas Waters[6]
1558/9 Thomas Hogan Thomas Waters[7]
1562/3 (Sir) Robert Bell Richard L'Estrange[7]
1571 (Sir) Robert Bell John Kynne[7]
1572 (Sir) Robert Bell, died
and replaced Jan 1580 by John Peyton		 John Pell[7]
1584 (Mar) John Peyton Richard Clarke[7]
1586 (Oct) Richard Clarke Thomas Oxborough[7]
1588/9 Richard Clarke Thomas Boston[7]
1593 Sir John Peyton William Lewis[7]
1597 (Sep) Thomas Oxborough Nathaniel Bacon[7]
1601 Sir Robert Mansell Thomas Oxborough[7]
1604 Thomas Oxborough Robert Hitcham
1614 Matthew Clerke Thomas Oxborough
1621–1622 Matthew Clerke John Wallis
1624 John Wallis William Doughty
1625 Thomas Gurling John Cooke
1626 Thomas Gurling John Cooke
1628 William Doughty Sir John Hare
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned

MPs 1640–1885

Year First member First party Second member Second party
1640 (Apr) William Doughty Thomas Gurling
1640 (Nov) John Perceval Parliamentarian Thomas Toll Parliamentarian
1644 Perceval died – seat vacant
1646 Edmund Hudson
July 1647 Hudson expelled – seat vacant
1649 William Cecil (The Earl of Salisbury)[8]
1653 King's Lynn was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Major-General Philip Skippon Guybon Goddard
1656 Major-General John Desborough[9]
January 1659 Griffith Lloyd Thomas Toll
May 1659 William Cecil (The Earl of Salisbury) One seat vacant
April 1660 Sir Ralph Hare Edward Walpole
1661 Sir William Hovell
1668 Robert Wright
1670 John Coke
1673 Sir Francis North
1675 Robert Coke
1679 John Turner Sir Simon Taylor
1681 Sir Henry Hobart Whig
1685 Sir John Turner
1689 Sigismund Trafford
1690 Daniel Bedingfeld
1695 Sir Charles Turner
1702 Sir Robert Walpole[10] Whig
1712 John Turner
1713 Sir Robert Walpole Whig
1738 Sir John Turner
1742 Edward Bacon
1747 Horatio Walpole, junior Whig
1757 Hon. Horace Walpole Whig
1768 Hon. Thomas Walpole
1774 Crisp Molineux
1784 Hon. Horatio Walpole[11]
1790 Sir Martin ffolkes Whig[12]
1809 Horatio Walpole Tory[12]
January 1822 William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck Tory[12]
June 1822 John Walpole Tory[12]
1824 William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck Tory[12]
1826 Lord William Bentinck Tory[12]
1828 Lord George Bentinck Whig[12]
1831 Lord William Lennox Whig[12]
1834 Conservative[12]
1835 Sir Stratford Canning Conservative[12]
1842 by-election Robert Jocelyn Conservative[12]
1847 Peelite[13][14][15][16]
1848 by-election Hon. Edward Stanley[17] Conservative
1854 by-election John Henry Gurney Whig
1859 Liberal
1865 Sir Thomas Buxton Liberal
1868 Hon. Robert Bourke Conservative
1869 by-election Lord Claud Hamilton Conservative
1880 Sir William ffolkes Liberal
1885 Representation reduced to one Member

MPs 1885–1974

Election Member Party
1885 Hon. Robert Bourke, later Baron Connemara Conservative
1886 by-election Weston Jarvis Conservative
1892 Thomas Gibson Bowles Conservative
1906 Carlyon Bellairs Liberal
1906 Liberal Unionist
January 1910 Thomas Gibson Bowles Liberal
December 1910 Holcombe Ingleby Conservative
1918 Sir Neville Jodrell Conservative
1923 Graham Woodwark Liberal
1924 Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy Conservative
1935 Somerset Maxwell Conservative
1943 Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy Conservative
1945 Frederick Wise Labour
1951 Ronald Scott-Miller Conservative
1959 Denys Bullard Conservative
1964 Derek Page Labour
1970 Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler Conservative
1974 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: King's Lynn (2 seats)[12][18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig George Bentinck 78 49.1
Tory John Walpole 73 45.9
Whig William ffolkes 8 5.0
Majority 65 40.9
Turnout c. 80 c. 20.0
Registered electors c. 400
Tory hold Swing
Tory hold Swing
General election 1831: King's Lynn (2 seats)[12][18]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig George Bentinck Unopposed
Whig William Lennox Unopposed
Registered electors c. 400
Whig hold
Whig gain from Tory
General election 1832: King's Lynn (2 seats)[12][19]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig George Bentinck Unopposed
Whig William Lennox Unopposed
Registered electors 836
Whig hold
Whig hold
General election 1835: King's Lynn (2 seats)[12][19]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig George Bentinck 531 44.8
Conservative Stratford Canning 416 35.1
Radical John Scott Lillie 238 20.1
Majority 178 15.0
Turnout 674 77.9
Registered electors 865
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Whig
General election 1837: King's Lynn (2 seats)[12][19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Bentinck 468 38.4 −6.4
Conservative Stratford Canning 382 31.3 −3.8
Whig George Keppel 369 30.3 N/A
Majority 13 1.0 −14.0
Turnout 756 85.4 +7.5
Registered electors 885
Conservative hold Swing −6.4
Conservative hold Swing −3.8

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stratford Canning Unopposed
Conservative George Bentinck Unopposed
Registered electors 1,144
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Canning resigned after being appointed the United Kingdom's ambassador to Turkey, causing a by-election.

By-election, 10 February 1842: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Jocelyn Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1847: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Bentinck Unopposed
Peelite Robert Jocelyn Unopposed
Registered electors 1,157
Conservative hold
Peelite gain from Conservative

Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 22 December 1848: King's Lynn[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Peelite Robert Jocelyn 641 40.3 N/A
Conservative Edward Stanley 559 35.2 N/A
Radical Robert Pashley[14][20][21] 390 24.5 N/A
Majority 169 10.7 N/A
Turnout 990 (est) 84.2 (est) N/A
Registered electors 1,176
Peelite hold Swing N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A

Jocelyn's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 16 September 1854: King's Lynn[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Whig John Henry Gurney Unopposed
Whig gain from Peelite
General election 1857: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Whig John Henry Gurney Unopposed
Registered electors 1,055
Conservative hold
Whig gain from Peelite

Stanley was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 4 March 1858: King's Lynn[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Conservative hold

Stanley was appointed President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 5 June 1858: King's Lynn[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1859: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Liberal John Henry Gurney Unopposed
Registered electors 1,019
Conservative hold
Liberal hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley 445 37.6 N/A
Liberal Thomas Buxton 401 33.8 N/A
Conservative Frederick Walpole[22] 339 28.6 N/A
Turnout 793 (est) 93.1 (est) N/A
Registered electors 852
Majority 44 3.8 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
Majority 62 5.2 N/A
Liberal hold Swing N/A

Stanley was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, requiring a by-election.

By-election, 11 July 1866: King's Lynn (1 seat)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1868: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edward Stanley 1,265 37.2 −0.4
Conservative Robert Bourke 1,125 33.1 +4.5
Liberal Thomas Buxton 1,012 29.7 −4.1
Majority 113 3.4 −0.4
Turnout 2,207 (est) 87.8 (est) −5.3
Registered electors 2,514
Conservative hold Swing +0.8
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +3.3

Stanley succeed to the peerage, becoming 15th Earl of Derby and causing a by-election.

By-election, 9 December 1869: King's Lynn (1 seat)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Claud Hamilton 1,051 50.5 −15.8
Liberal Richard Young[23] 1,032 49.5 +15.8
Majority 19 1.0 −2.4
Turnout 2,083 82.9 (est) −4.9
Registered electors 2,514
Conservative hold Swing −15.7

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Bourke 1,163 28.0 −5.1
Conservative Claud Hamilton 1,093 26.3 −10.9
Liberal William ffolkes 999 24.1 +9.2
Liberal Edmond Wodehouse[24] 895 21.6 +6.7
Majority 94 2.2 −1.2
Turnout 2,075 (est) 84.7 (est) −3.1
Registered electors 2,450
Conservative hold Swing −7.2
Conservative hold Swing −8.8

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: King's Lynn (2 seats)[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William ffolkes 1,286 26.3 +2.2
Conservative Robert Bourke 1,257 25.7 −2.3
Conservative Claud Hamilton 1,192 24.4 −1.9
Liberal Frank Lockwood 1,151 23.6 +2.0
Turnout 2,443 (est) 87.9 (est) +3.2
Registered electors 2,779
Majority 84 1.9 N/A
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +2.1
Majority 106 2.1 −0.1
Conservative hold Swing −2.2
  • representation reduced to one member
Sir William ffolkes
General election 1885: King's Lynn[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Bourke 1,472 53.1 +3.0
Liberal William ffolkes 1,302 46.9 −3.0
Majority 170 6.2 +4.1
Turnout 2,774 89.7 +1.8 (est)
Registered electors 3,094
Conservative hold Swing +3.0
General election 1886: King's Lynn[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Bourke 1,417 55.3 +2.2
Liberal John Briscoe 1,146 44.7 −2.2
Majority 271 10.6 +4.4
Turnout 2,563 82.8 −6.9
Registered electors 3,094
Conservative hold Swing +2.2

Bourke's resignation on appointment as Governor of Madras caused a by-election.

By-election, 25 Aug 1886: King's Lynn[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Weston Jarvis 1,423 54.9 −0.4
Liberal James Harris Sanders[26] 1,168 45.1 +0.4
Majority 255 9.8 −0.8
Turnout 2,591 83.7 +0.9
Registered electors 3,094
Conservative hold Swing −0.4

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: King's Lynn [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,319 50.2 −5.1
Liberal Thomas R. Kemp 1,308 49.8 +5.1
Majority 11 0.4 −10.2
Turnout 2,627 88.5 +5.7
Registered electors 2,970
Conservative hold Swing −5.1
Beaumont
General election 1895: King's Lynn [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,395 51.3 +1.1
Liberal Hubert Beaumont 1,326 48.7 −1.1
Majority 69 2.6 +2.2
Turnout 2,721 91.3 +2.8
Registered electors 2,979
Conservative hold Swing +1.1

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: King's Lynn [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,499 52.9 +1.6
Liberal Handel Booth 1,332 47.1 −1.6
Majority 167 5.8 +3.2
Turnout 2,831 88.2 −3.1
Registered electors 3,209
Conservative hold Swing +1.6
C. W. Bellairs
General election 1906: King's Lynn [25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Carlyon Bellairs 1,506 43.8 −3.3
Ind. Conservative Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,164 33.8 New
Conservative Alan Burgoyne 772 22.4 −30.5
Majority 342 10.0 N/A
Turnout 3,442 93.2 +5.0
Registered electors 3,692
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +13.6

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: King's Lynn [27][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,900 53.7 +9.9
Conservative Edward Cadogan 1,638 46.3 +23.9
Majority 262 7.4 −2.6
Turnout 3,538 94.2 +1.0
Registered electors 3,755
Liberal hold Swing −7.0
General election December 1910: King's Lynn [27][28]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Holcombe Ingleby 1,765 51.4 +5.1
Liberal Thomas Gibson Bowles 1,668 48.6 −5.1
Majority 97 2.8 N/A
Turnout 3,433 91.4 −2.8
Registered electors 3,755
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +5.1

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 from 1914 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

General election 1918: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C Unionist Neville Jodrell 10,146 50.9 −0.5
Labour Robert Barrie Walker 9,780 49.1 New
Majority 366 1.8 −1.0
Turnout 19,926 59.7 −31.7
Registered electors 33,349
Unionist hold Swing
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Neville Jodrell 9,862 37.2 −13.7
Labour Robert Barrie Walker 8,683 32.7 −16.4
Liberal Graham Woodwark 7,970 30.1 New
Majority 1,179 4.5 +2.7
Turnout 26,515 75.5 +15.8
Registered electors 35,131
Unionist hold Swing +1.4
General election 1923: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Graham Woodwark 9,943 38.7 +8.6
Unionist Neville Jodrell 9,266 36.1 −1.1
Labour John Stevenson 6,488 25.2 −6.5
Majority 677 2.6 N/A
Turnout 25,697 71.9 −3.6
Registered electors 35,754
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +4.9
General election 1924: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Maurice Roche 11,710 41.6 +5.5
Liberal Graham Woodwark 9,184 32.6 −6.1
Labour John Stevenson 7,280 25.8 +0.6
Majority 2,526 9.0 N/A
Turnout 28,714 77.6 +5.7
Registered electors 36,289
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +5.8
General election 1929: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Maurice Roche 14,501 40.7 −0.9
Liberal William Bertram Mitford 10,806 30.3 −2.3
Labour John Maynard 10,356 29.0 +3.2
Majority 3,695 10.4 +1.4
Turnout 35,663 79.1 +1.5
Registered electors 45,103
Unionist hold Swing +0.7

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Maurice Roche 23,687 70.2 +29.5
Labour David Freeman 10,054 29.8 +0.8
Majority 13,633 40.4 +30.0
Turnout 33,741 72.6 −6.5
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1935: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Somerset Maxwell 17,492 50.0 −20.2
Labour F Emerson 12,062 34.5 +4.7
Liberal Frank Ongley Darvall 5,418 15.5 New
Majority 5,430 15.5 −24.9
Turnout 34,972 71.7 −0.9
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

1943 King's Lynn by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edmund Roche 10,696 54.2 +4.2
Independent Labour Frederick Wise 9,027 45.8 New
Majority 1,669 8.4 −7.1
Turnout 9,723 39.8 −31.9
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1945: King's Lynn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frederick Wise 18,202 48.7 +14.2
Conservative Donald McCullough 14,928 39.9 −10.1
Liberal Alexander Peckover Doyle Penrose 3,796 10.2 −5.3
Independent Geoffrey Bowles 444 1.2 New
Majority 3,274 8.8 N/A
Turnout 37,370 73.3 +1.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: King's Lynn[29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frederick Wise 19,399 45.33 −3.37
Conservative Ronald Scott-Miller 19,129 44.70 +4.80
Liberal Richard Arden Winch 4,266 9.97 −0.23
Majority 270 0.63 −8.17
Turnout 42,794 83.84 +10.54
Registered electors 51,043
Labour hold Swing −4.09
General election 1951: King's Lynn[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ronald Scott-Miller 21,954 51.09 +6.39
Labour Frederick Wise 21,017 48.91 +3.58
Majority 937 2.18 N/A
Turnout 42,791 82.77 −1.07
Registered electors 51,914
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +1.41
General election 1955: King's Lynn[31]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ronald Scott-Miller 20,949 51.65 +0.56
Labour Hugh Lawson 19,611 48.35 −0.56
Majority 1,338 3.30 +1.12
Turnout 40,560 78.20 −4.57
Registered electors 51,867
Conservative hold Swing +0.56
General election 1959: King's Lynn[32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Denys Bullard 21,671 52.12 +0.47
Labour Colin Jackson 19,906 47.88 −0.47
Majority 1,765 4.24 +0.94
Turnout 41,577 79.76 +1.56
Registered electors 52,125
Conservative hold Swing +0.47

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: King's Lynn[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Derek Page 21,460 50.12 +2.24
Conservative Denys Bullard 21,356 49.88 −2.24
Majority 104 0.24 N/A
Turnout 42,816 80.50 +0.74
Registered electors 53,186
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +2.24
General election 1966: King's Lynn[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Derek Page 23,324 52.26 +2.14
Conservative Denys Bullard 21,305 47.74 −2.14
Majority 2,019 4.52 +4.28
Turnout 44,629 82.90 +2.40
Registered electors 53,832
Labour hold Swing +2.14

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: King's Lynn[35]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler 23,822 50.03 +2.29
Labour Derek Page 23,789 49.97 −2.29
Majority 33 0.06 N/A
Turnout 47,611 78.23 −4.67
Registered electors 60.857
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +2.29

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
New title Constituency represented by the prime minister
1721–1742 		Vacant
until 1743
Title next held by
Sussex