North Devon (UK Parliament Constituency)
North Devon 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. The current MP is Nick Harvey of the Liberal Democrats, first elected at the 1992 general election. The best-known MP of the past was Jeremy Thorpe.
A previous two-seat constituency of the same name existed from 1832 to 1885, formally titled the 'Northern Division of Devon'.
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