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Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a
Cornish Assembly . It has representatives in local government (see main article), but has never succeeded in national elections.
Elections to the House of Commons
Election
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
%
1970
[7]
Falmouth & Camborne
Richard Jenkin
960
2.0
February 1974
[7]
Truro
James Whetter
850
1.5
October 1974
[7]
Truro
James Whetter
384
0.7
1979
[7]
Falmouth & Camborne
Leonard Truran
1,637
3.0
St Ives
Colin Murley
1,662
4.0
1983 [
citation needed ]
Falmouth & Camborne
Richard Jenkin
582
1.2
St Ives
Pedyr Prior
569
1.2
1997 [
citation needed ]
Cornwall, N
John Bolitho
645
1.1
Cornwall, SE
Paul Dunbar
573
1.0
Falmouth & Camborne
Ruth Lewarne
238
0.4
Truro & St Austell
Davyth Hicks
450
0.8
2001
[8]
Cornwall, SE
Kenneth John George
1,209
2.3
Falmouth & Camborne
Hilda Wasley
853
1.8
Truro & St Austell
Conan Jenkin
1,137
2.3
2005 [
citation needed ]
Cornwall, N
Dick Cole
1,351
2.4
Cornwall, SE
Graham Sandercock
769
1.4
Falmouth & Camborne
Hilda Wasley
370
0.8
Truro & St Austell
Conan Jenkin
1,062
2.1
2010
[9]
Camborne & Redruth
Loveday Jenkin
775
1.8
Cornwall, N
Joanie Willet
530
1.1
Cornwall, SE
Roger Holmes
641
1.3
St Austell & Newquay
Dick Cole
2,007
4.2
St Ives
Simon John Reed
387
0.8
Truro & Falmouth
Loic Rich
1,039
2.1
2015
[10]
Camborne & Redruth
Loveday Jenkin
897
2.0
Cornwall, N
Jeremy Jefferies
631
1.3
Cornwall, SE
Andrew Long
1,003
2.0
St Austell & Newquay
Dick Cole
2,063
4.1
St Ives
Rob Simmons
518
1.1
Truro & Falmouth
Stephen Richardson
563
1.1
2019
[11]
St Austell & Newquay
Dick Cole
1,660
3.0
Elections to the European Parliament
References
^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael.
"LOCAL ELECTIONS HANDBOOK 2001" (PDF) .
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"Local Elections Archive Project - 2005 - Cornwall" . www.andrewteale.me.uk . Retrieved 3 April 2023 .
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"Election results by party, 4 June 2009" . democracy.cornwall.gov.uk . 4 June 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2024 .
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"Election results by party, 2 May 2013" . democracy.cornwall.gov.uk . 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2024 .
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"Election results by party, 4 May 2017" . democracy.cornwall.gov.uk . 4 May 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2023 .
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"Election results by party, 6 May 2021" . democracy.cornwall.gov.uk . 6 May 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2022 .
^
a
b
c
d FWS Craig, British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973
^
Deacon, Bernard ;
Cole, Dick ;
Tregidga, Garry (2003). Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism . Wales: Welsh Academic Press. p. 104.
ISBN
1860570755 .
^ BBC News - Election 2010 Results:
Camborne & Redruth ,
Cornwall North ,
Cornwall South East ,
St Austell & Newquay ,
St Ives and
Truro & Falmouth
^ BBC News - Election 2015 Results:
Camborne & Redruth ,
Cornwall North ,
Cornwall South East ,
St Austell & Newquay ,
St Ives and
Truro & Falmouth
^ BBC News - Election 2019 Results:
St Austell and Newquay
^
a
b
c
"United Kingdom European Parliamentary Election results 1979-94: England (part 1)" . www.election.demon.co.uk . Retrieved 28 June 2018 .
^
"European Election 2009: South West" . BBC News . 8 June 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2014 .
Election results by political party in the United Kingdom
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