North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
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| North Cornwall County constituency |
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| North Cornwall shown within Cornwall, and Cornwall shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Dan Rogerson |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Cornwall |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
North Cornwall is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency shares a similar area to that of the North Cornwall district, however it also extends into the Restormel district, and parts of the North Cornwall district also fall into the constituency of South East Cornwall.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | Sir George Croydon Marks | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Alfred Martyn Williams | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Sir Donald Maclean | Liberal | |
| 1932 | Sir Francis Dyke Acland | Liberal | |
| 1939 | Thomas Lewis Horabin | Liberal | |
| 1950 | Sir Harold Roper | Conservative | |
| 1959 | James Scott-Hopkins | Conservative | |
| 1966 | John Wentworth Pardoe | Liberal | |
| 1979 | Gerry Neale | Conservative | |
| 1992 | Paul Tyler | Liberal Democrat | |
| 2005 | Daniel Rogerson | Liberal Democrat | |
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: North Cornwall | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dan Rogerson | 23,842 | 42.6 | -9.4 | |
| Conservative | Mark Formosa | 20,766 | 37.1 | +3.3 | |
| Labour | David Acton | 6,636 | 11.9 | +2.2 | |
| UKIP | David Campbell-Bannerman | 3,063 | 5.5 | +1.1 | |
| Mebyon Kernow | Dick Cole | 1,351 | 2.4 | +2.4 | |
| Veritas | Alan Eastwood | 324 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Majority | 3,076 | 5.5 | |||
| Turnout | 55,982 | 64.5 | 0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -6.4% | |||
| General Election 2001: North Cornwall | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Tyler | 28,082 | 52.0 | -1.1 | |
| Conservative | John Weller | 18,250 | 33.8 | +4.3 | |
| Labour | Michael Goodman | 5,257 | 9.7 | +0.3 | |
| UKIP | Steve Protz | 2,394 | 4.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,832 | 18.2 | |||
| Turnout | 53,983 | 63.8 | -9.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: North Cornwall | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Tyler | 31,100 | 53.2 | +5.8 | |
| Conservative | Nigel Linacre | 17,253 | 29.5 | -14.8 | |
| Labour | Anne Lindo | 5,523 | 9.4 | +2.9 | |
| Referendum Party | Felicity Odam | 3,636 | 6.2 | N/A | |
| Mebyon Kernow | John Bolitho | 645 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Liberal | Rif Winfield | 186 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Nicholas Creswell | 152 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 13,847 | 23.7 | |||
| Turnout | 58,495 | 73.05 | unknown | ||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 10.3% Con to LD | |||
[edit] See also
| Constituencies in South West England | |
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| Conservative |
Bournemouth East | Bournemouth West | Bridgwater | Christchurch | Cotswold | Devizes | East Devon | Forest of Dean | North Dorset | North Wiltshire | Poole | Salisbury | South West Devon | Tewkesbury | Tiverton and Honiton | Torridge and West Devon | Totnes | Wells | West Dorset | Westbury | Weston-super-Mare | Woodspring |
| Liberal Democrat |
Bath | Bristol West | Cheltenham | Falmouth and Camborne | Mid Dorset and North Poole | North Cornwall | North Devon | Northavon | Somerton and Frome | South East Cornwall | St Ives | Taunton | Teignbridge | Torbay | Truro and St Austell | Yeovil |
| Labour |
Bristol East | Bristol North West | Bristol South | Exeter | Gloucester | Kingswood | North Swindon | Plymouth Devonport | Plymouth Sutton | South Dorset | South Swindon | Stroud | Wansdyke |
| South West European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | Labour (1) | |
