Sarah HallThe Labour party is facing the prospect of having no MPs in Norfolk for the first time in more than two decades after a poor showing at the ballot box in the county.Sarah Hall
Election Analysis
The Labour party is facing the prospect of having no MPs in Norfolk for the first time in more than two decades after a poor showing at the ballot box in the county.
If John Cook fails to win back Norwich North from the Conservatives at today's count it will mean the city will be without a Labour MP for the first time since 1987.
And, with Allyson Barron unlikely to make much headway at today's count for the new Broadland constituency, defeats for Charles Clarke and Tony Wright spelled a miserable night for Labour in Norfolk.
Mr Clarke and Mr Wright were elected to Norwich South and Great Yarmouth when Labour swept to power 13 years ago.
Over the border Bob Blizzard was beaten in the Waveney constituency by Conservative Trevor Aldous.
There was disappointment too for the Green Party in Norfolk. While the party can now boast its first MP after leader Caroline Lucas won in Brighton Pavilion, her deputy Adrian Ramsay failed to repeat the feat in Norwich South.
Mr Ramsay finished in fourth place, although his 7,095 votes were well up on the 3,101 he garnered in the 2005 general election.
The UK Independence Party picked up a decent number of votes, including 1,145 in Norwich South, 2,329 in South Norfolk and 2,066 in Great Yarmouth.
Apart from the Lib Dem victories in Norwich South and Norman Lamb increasing his majority in North Norfolk, it was a clean sweep for the Conservatives in the rest of the county.
MPs in Norwich since 1950
Norwich South
1950ConservativeHenry Strauss
1955ConservativeGeoffrey Rippon
1964LabourChristopher Norwood
1970ConservativeThomas Stuttaford
1974LabourJohn Garrett
1983ConservativeJohn Powley
1987LabourJohn Garrett
1997LabourCharles Clarke
2010Lib DemSimon Wright
Norwich North
1950LabourJohn Paton
1964LabourGeorge Wallace
1974LabourDavid Ennals
1983ConservativePatrick Thompson
1997LabourIan Gibson
2009ConservativeChloe Smith
2010??
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