# Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

Norfolk was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290 to 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. In 1832 the county was divided for parliamentary purposes into two new two member divisions – East Norfolk and West Norfolk.

## History
### Boundaries

The constituency consisted of the historic county of Norfolk in the East of England, excluding the city of Norwich which had the status of a county corporate after 1404. (Although Norfolk contained four other parliamentary boroughs – Castle Rising, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and Thetford – each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Norfolk was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency: owning property within a borough could confer a vote at the county election. This was not the case, though, for Norwich.)

### Franchise and electorate

As in other county constituencies the franchise between 1430 and 1832 was defined by the Forty Shilling Freeholder Act, which gave the right to vote to every man who possessed freehold property within the county valued at £2 or more per year for the purposes of land tax; it was not necessary for the freeholder to occupy his land, nor even in later years to be resident in the county at all.
Except during the period of the Commonwealth, Norfolk had two MPs elected by the bloc vote method, under which each voter had two votes. In the nominated Barebones Parliament of 1653, five members represented Norfolk. In the First and Second Parliaments of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, however, there was a general redistribution of seats and Norfolk elected ten members, while the two smallest of the county's boroughs (Castle Rising and Thetford) lost their seats. The traditional arrangements were restored from 1659.
At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, Norfolk had a population of approximately 390,000, though only a fraction of these could vote: the highest recorded turnouts in Norfolk were at the 1802 and 1806 elections, at each of which under 12,000 votes were cast, even though each voter could cast two votes.

### Political character

Norfolk's electorate was predominantly rural, partly as an effect of the Norwich freeholders voting in the city rather than the county. It has been estimated from the pollbooks that in the early 19th century only around one in six of the voters lived in towns, with Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn contributing the largest numbers of these. Fittingly for such a constituency, the families of two of the best-known pioneers of the agrarian revolution, Coke of Holkham and "Turnip" Townshend, frequently provided the county's Members of Parliament.
Nevertheless, no one or two families controlled the constituency, and competition was fostered by the leading families lining up on different sides of the partisan divide. The leading Whig families around the turn of the 18th century were those of Walpole and Townshend, while the most important Tory interests were those of the Wodehouse and Astley families, until Sir Jacob Astley defected to the Whigs before the 1715 election. By the middle of the 18th century, the list of local peerage families who could expect to exert influence at Norfolk elections had grown to include the Hobart Earls of Buckinghamshire, the Earls Cholmondeley and the Lord Suffield, but these magnates remained divided, with contention between support for the "court" and "country" factions within the Whigs as well as between Whigs and Tories.
Consequently, the independent voters generally held the balance of power. But this did not prevent the various leading families from monopolising the representation between them, a process that accelerated in the 18th century: 16 different families represented Norfolk in the 22 Parliaments from 1660 to 1746, but only 7 in the 18 Parliaments from 1747 to 1832. The minor gentry could not expect to secure election for themselves, only to choose between the candidates of the major families. The Cokes of Holkham were generally regarded as the champions of the independent freeholders, and were frequently elected. Elections in Norfolk were therefore rarely a foregone conclusion, and often hard-fought at the canvassing stage even when the contest was not carried to a poll.
Elections were held at a single polling place, Norwich, and voters from the rest of the county had to travel to the county town to exercise their franchise. It was normal for voters to expect the candidates for whom they voted to meet their expenses in travelling to the poll, making the cost of a contested election substantial. Contested elections were therefore the exception rather than the rule, potential candidates preferring to canvass support beforehand and usually not insisting on a vote being taken unless they were confident of winning; at all but 8 of the 29 general elections between 1701 and 1832, Norfolk's two MPs were elected unopposed, with only two contests after 1768. But this was more frequent than in many other counties of Norfolk's size.

## Members of Parliament
### 1290–1640

* Constituency created (1290)
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
| c1290–1327 | Robert Baynard | |
| 1377 (Jan) | Sir Stephen Hales |
| 1379 | Sir Thomas Gissing | |
| 1380 (Jan) | Sir Stephen Hales | |
| 1380 | Sir Thomas Gissing | |
| 1380 | Sir Roger Walsingham | |
| 1381 | Sir Stephen Hales | Sir Thomas Gerbridge |
| 1382 (May) | Sir Stephen Hales | Sir Thomas Gerbridge |
| 1382 (Oct) | Sir Stephen Hales | Sir Roger Walsingham |
| 1383 (Feb) | Sir Stephen Hales | |
| 1383 (Oct) | Sir Stephen Hales | |
| 1383 | Sir Roger Walsingham | |
| 1384 (Nov) | Sir Stephen Hales | |
| 1386 | Sir Stephen Hales | Sir Thomas Gerbridge |
| 1388 (Feb) | Sir John Strange | Sir John White |
| 1388 (Sep) | Sir John Strange | Sir John White |
| 1390 (Jan) | William Rees | Sir John White |
| 1390 (Nov) | Sir Robert Berney | Hugh Fastolf |
| 1391 | Sir Robert Berney | Sir John White |
| 1393 | Sir Ralph Shelton | Sir John Curson |
| 1394 | William Rees | Sir John White |
| 1395 | Sir Robert Berney | Sir John White |
| 1397 (Jan) | William Rees | Sir John Curdon |
| 1397 (Sep) | Sir Nicholas Dagworth | Sir Edmund Thorpe |
| 1399 | Sir Robert Berney | John Gurney |
| 1401 | John Payn | John Wynter |
| 1402 | Sir Ralph Shelton | Sir Robert Berney |
| 1404 (Jan) | John Reymes | John Wynter |
| 1404 (Oct) | John Gurney | Sir Edmund Oldhall |
| 1406 | Sir Edmund Noon | John Reymes |
| 1407 | Sir Edmund Thorpe | John Wynter |
| 1410 | John Wodehouse | John Wynter |
| 1411 | Sir Edmund Oldhall | John Wynter |
| 1413 (Feb) | |
| 1413 (May) | Sir Edmund Oldhall | John Wynter |
| 1414 (Apr) | Sir Robert Berney | John Wynter |
| 1414 (Nov) | Sir John Ingoldisthorpe | John Wodehouse |
| 1415 | |
| 1416 (Mar) | Sir Edmund Oldhall | John Wodehouse |
| 1416 (Oct) | |
| 1417 | Sir Edmund Oldhall | John Wodehouse |
| 1419 | John Lancaster | Oliver Groos |
| 1420 | Sir John Radcliffe | Edmund Winter |
| 1421 (May) | John Lancaster | John Wodehouse |
| 1421 (Dec) | John Lancaster | Edmund Winter |
| 1422 | John Lancaster | Edmund Winter |
| 1427 | Edmund Winter | |
| 1429 | Edmund Winter | |
| 1432 | Edmund Winter | Sir Thomas Tuddenham |
| 1435 | Edmund Winter | Sir Thomas Tuddenham |
| 1437 | Edmund Winter | |
| 1442 | Sir Thomas Tuddenham | |
| 1449 | Thomas Shernborne |
| 1450 | Henry Gray |
| 1460 | John Paston |
| 1461 | John Paston |
| 1463 | William Knyvett |
| 1467 | John Paston |
| 1467 | William Knyvett |
| 1470 | William Knyvett |
| 1491 | __? Calthorpe | |
| 1492 | Ralph Shelton | |
| 1495 | Sir Thomas Lovell | |
| 1510–1523 | No names known |
| 1529 | Sir Roger Townsend | Sir James Boleyn |
| 1536 | ?Sir Roger Townsend | ? |
| 1539 | Richard Southwell | Edmund Wyndham |
| 1539 | ?Sir Nicholas Hare |
| 1542 | Sir Roger Townsend | ?Sir Richard Southwell |
| 1545 | Sir Thomas Paston | Christopher Heydon |
| 1547 | Sir Edmund Knyvet, died 1550 and repl.Jan 1552 by Sir Robert Dudley | Sir Nicholas Lestrange |
| 1553 (Mar) | Sir Robert Dudley | Sir Thomas Radcliffe |
| 1553 (Oct) | Sir Richard Southwell | Sir Henry Bedingfield |
| 1554 (Apr) | Sir Richard Southwell | Sir Henry Bedingfield |
| 1554 (Nov) | Sir Richard Southwell | Sir John Shelton |
| 1555 | Sir John Clere | John Appleyard |
| 1558 | Sir Henry Bedingfield | Sir William Woodhouse |
| 1558–59 | Sir Robert Dudley | Sir Edmund Wyndham |
| 1562–63 | Sir William Woodhouse | Sir Edward Warner |
| 1566 | Both died and replaced 1566 by Clement Paston and Roger Townshend | Both died and replaced 1566 by Clement Paston and Roger Townshend |
| 1571 | Sir Christopher Heydon | Sir William Butts |
| 1572 | Henry Woodhouse | Francis Wyndham made judge and repl. 1581 by Sir Roger Woodhouse |
| Parliament of Oct 1584–1585 | Sir Drue Drury | Nathaniel Bacon |
| Parliament of 1586–1587 | Thomas Farmer | William Gresham |
| Parliament of 1588–1589 | Sir Henry Woodhouse | Christopher Heydon |
| Parliament of 1593 | Edward Coke | Nathaniel Bacon |
| Parliament of 1597–1598 | Henry Gawdy | Sir John Townshend |
| Parliament of 1601 | Henry Gawdy | Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy |
| Parliament of 1604–1611 | Sir Nathaniel Bacon | Sir Charles Cornwallis |
| Addled Parliament (1614) | Sir Henry Bedingfield | Sir Hamon le Strange |
| Parliament of 1621–1622 | Drue Drury | Sir Hamon le Strange |
| Happy Parliament (1624–1625) | Sir Thomas Holland | Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet |
| Useless Parliament (1625) | Sir Edward Coke | Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Redgrave |
| Parliament of 1625–1626 | Sir Edward Coke | Sir Anthony Drury |
| Parliament of 1626 | Sir Edward Coke | Sir Robert Bell |
| Parliament of 1628 | Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet | John Heveningham |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | No Parliaments summoned |

### 1640–1832

| Year | 1st Member | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Member | 2nd Party |
| April 1640 | | Sir Edmund Moundeford | Parliamentarian | | Sir John Holland, Bt | Parliamentarian |
| November 1640 | | Sir Edmund Moundeford | Parliamentarian | | (Sir) John Potts | Parliamentarian |
| 1645 | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | Parliamentarian | | (Sir) John Potts | Parliamentarian |
| 1647 | | Sir John Palgrave, Bt | Parliamentarian | | (Sir) John Potts | Parliamentarian |
| December 1648 | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Palgrave and Potts excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant |
| Norfolk was represented by five members in the Barebones Parliament |||||||
| 1653 | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton | Robert Jermy (?); Tobias Frere; Ralph Wolmer; Henry King; William Burton |
| Norfolk was represented by ten members in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |||||||
| 1654 | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere | Sir John Hobart; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Thomas Weld; Robert Wilton Thomas Sotherton; Philip Wodehouse; Robert Wood (senior); Philip Bedingfield (senior); Tobias Frere |
| 1656 | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton | Sir John Hobart; Charles Fleetwood; Sir William D'Oyly; Sir Ralph Hare, Bt; Sir Horatio Townsend; Colonel Robert Wilton Philip Wodehouse; Colonel Robert Wood; John Buxton; Thomas Sotherton |
| Representation reverted to two members in the Third Protectorate Parliament |||||||
| January 1659 | | Sir Horatio Townsend | | | Sir William D'Oyly | |
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | Not represented in the restored Rump | Not represented in the restored Rump | Not represented in the restored Rump | Not represented in the restored Rump | Not represented in the restored Rump |
| April 1660 | | The Lord Cramond | | | Sir Horatio Townshend | |
| 1661 | | The Lord Cramond | | | Sir Ralph Hare, Bt | |
| 1673 | | The Lord Cramond | | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | |
| 1675 | | Sir Robert Kemp, Bt | | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | |
| February 1679 | | Sir Christopher Calthorpe | | | Sir Nevill Catlin | |
| May 1679 | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | | | Sir Nevill Catlin | |
| August 1679 | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | | | Sir Peter Gleane, Bt | |
| 1685 | | Sir Thomas Hare, Bt | | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| 1689 | | Sir William Cook, Bt | Tory | | Sir Henry Hobart, Bt | Whig |
| 1690 | | Sir William Cook, Bt | Tory | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| 1695 | | Sir Henry Hobart, Bt | Whig | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| 1698 | | Sir William Cook, Bt | Tory | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| January 1701 | | Hon. Roger Townshend | Whig | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| December 1701 | | Hon. Roger Townshend | Whig | | Sir John Holland, Bt | |
| 1702 | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory | | Sir John Holland, Bt | |
| 1705 | | Hon. Roger Townshend | Whig | | Sir John Holland, Bt | |
| 1708 | | Ashe Windham | | | Sir John Holland, Bt | |
| 1710 | | Sir John Wodehouse, Bt | Tory | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Tory |
| 1713 | | Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt | | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Whig |
| 1715 | | Thomas de Grey | Whig | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Whig |
| 1722 | | Thomas de Grey | Whig | | Sir Thomas Coke | Whig |
| 1727 | | Sir John Hobart, Bt | Whig | | Sir Thomas Coke | Whig |
| 1728 | | Harbord Harbord | | | Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt | Tory |
| 1734 | | William Wodehouse | Tory | | Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt | Tory |
| 1737 | | Armine Wodehouse | Tory | | Sir Edmund Bacon, Bt | Tory |
| 1741 | | Armine Wodehouse | Tory | | Viscount Coke | Whig |
| 1747 | | Armine Wodehouse | Tory | | Hon. George Townshend | Whig |
| 1764 | | Armine Wodehouse | Tory | | Thomas de Grey | |
| 1768 | | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | | | Thomas de Grey | |
| 1774 | | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | | | Wenman Coke | |
| 1776 | | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | | | Thomas Coke | |
| 1784 | | Sir Edward Astley, Bt | | | Sir John Wodehouse, Bt | |
| 1790 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | Sir John Wodehouse, Bt | |
| 1797 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | Jacob Astley | |
| 1806 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | William Windham | Whig |
| March 1807 | | Edward Coke | Whig | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Whig |
| May 1807 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | Sir Jacob Astley, Bt | Whig |
| 1817 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | Edmond Wodehouse | Tory |
| 1830 | | Thomas Coke | Whig | | Sir William ffolkes, Bt | Whig |
| 1832 | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West | Constituency abolished see: Norfolk East and Norfolk West |

## Election results 1710–1832

Note on percentage change calculations: Where there was only one candidate of a party in successive elections, for the same number of seats, change is calculated on the party percentage vote. Where there was more than one candidate, in one or both successive elections for the same number of seats, then change is calculated on the individual percentage vote.
Note on sources: The information for the election results given below is taken from Sedgwick 1715–1754, Stooks Smith 1715–1754, Namier and Brooke 1754–1790 and Stooks Smith 1790–1832.

### Elections in the 1710s

General election 1710: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | John Wodehouse | 3,216 | 27.73 | N/A |
| | Tory | Jacob Astley | 3,200 | 27.60 | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Ashe Windham | 2,783 | 24.00 | N/A |
| | Whig | Robert Walpole | 2,397 | 20.67 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,596 | N/A | N/A |
* Note (1710): Stooks Smith, whose compilation of results normally starts with the 1715 general election, is the source for this result. He gives no party classification for the candidates, but for three of them the position is obvious from the survey of Norfolk politics in The History of Parliament 1715–1754. Windham was probably a Whig, but this has not yet been confirmed.
* Note (1713): No source for the full result of this election has yet been located. Sir Jacob Astley was re-elected as a Tory but defected to the Whigs during the Parliament.
General election 18 February 1715: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas de Grey | 3,183 | 27.17 | N/A |
| | Whig | Jacob Astley | 3,059 | 26.11 | N/A |
| | Tory | Sir Ralph Hare | 2,840 | 24.24 | N/A |
| | Tory | Erasmus Earle | 2,635 | 22.49 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,717 | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1720s

General election 11 April 1722: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Thomas de Grey | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 23 August 1727: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | John Hobart | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
* Creation of Hobart as Lord Hobart and of Coke as Lord Lovel.
By-Election 26 June 1728: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Edmund Bacon | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Harbord Harbord | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1730s

General election 22 May 1734: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Edmund Bacon | 3,224 | 25.58 | N/A |
| | Tory | William Wodehouse | 3,153 | 25.01 | N/A |
| | Whig | William Morden | 3,147 | 24.97 | N/A |
| | Whig | Robert Coke | 3,081 | 24.44 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 12,605 | N/A | N/A |
* Death of Wodehouse
By-Election 23 March 1737: Norfolk :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Armine Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory hold | Tory hold | Swing | N/A | |

### Elections in the 1740s

General election 13 May 1741: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Armine Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Edward Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 1 July 1747: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Armine Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | George Townshend | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1750s

General election 8 May 1754: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | George Townshend | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory | Armine Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1760s

General election 1 April 1761: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | George Townshend | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory | Armine Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
* Succession of Townshend as the 4th Viscount Townshend
By-Election 11 April 1764: Norfolk :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas de Grey | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold | Swing | N/A | |
General election 23 March 1768: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Edward Astley | 2,978 | 27.02 | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas de Grey | 2,754 | 24.99 | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Armine Wodehouse | 2,680 | 24.32 | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Wenman Coke | 2,609 | 23.67 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,021 | N/A | N/A |
* Note (1768): Stooks Smith has different figures for Astley (2,977) and Coke (2,510).

### Elections in the 1770s

General election 26 October 1774: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Edward Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Wenman Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
* Death of Coke
By-Election 8 May 1776: Norfolk :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold | Swing | N/A | |

### Elections in the 1780s

General election 20 September 1780: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Edward Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 14 April 1784: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Edward Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | John Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1790s

General election 1790: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | John Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 1796: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | John Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1800s

* Creation of Wodehouse as 1st Baron Wodehouse
By-Election November 1801: Norfolk :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Nonpartisan | Jacob Henry Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold | Nonpartisan hold |
General election 1802: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | 4,317 | 37.72 | New |
| | Whig | Jacob Henry Astley | 3,612 | 31.56 | N/A |
| | Tory | John Wodehouse | 3,517 | 30.73 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 95 | 0.83 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,446 (7,251 voted) | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig gain from Nonpartisan | Whig gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | | |
| | Whig gain from Nonpartisan | Whig gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | | |
* Note (1802): Stooks Smith records that the polls were open for eight days
General election 1806: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | 4,118 | 36.59 | −1.13 |
| | Whig | William Windham | 3,772 | 33.51 | N/A |
| | Tory | John Wodehouse | 3,365 | 29.90 | −0.83 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 107 | 3.61 | +2.78 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 11,255 | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig hold | Whig hold | Swing | | |
| | Whig hold | Whig hold | Swing | | |
* Note (1806): Stooks Smith records that the polls were open for six days
* Election declared void
By-Election March 1807: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Jacob Henry Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Edward Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 1807: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Jacob Henry Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1810s

General election 1812: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | Jacob Henry Astley | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
* Death of Astley
By-Election May 1817: Norfolk :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Tory | Edmond Wodehouse | 3,861 | 54.00 | New |
| | Whig | Edward Roger Pratt | 3,289 | 46.00 | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 572 | 8.00 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 7,150 | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory gain from Whig | Tory gain from Whig | Tory gain from Whig | Tory gain from Whig | Tory gain from Whig |
* Note (1817): Stooks Smith records that the polls were open for five days.
General election 1818: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory | Edmond Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1820s

General election 1820: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory | Edmond Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 1826: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Tory | Edmond Wodehouse | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |

### Elections in the 1830s

General election 1830: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | William ffolkes | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
General election 1831: Norfolk (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Whig | Thomas Coke | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
| | Whig | William ffolkes | Unopposed | N/A | N/A |
* Constituency divided following the Reform Act 1832, with effect from the 1832 United Kingdom general election.