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| Established | June 09, 1983 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modified | RBH October 04, 2021 01:04am |
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This is the most northerly of the Suffolk seats, and is named after the River Waveney, which forms the boundary with Norfolk. The most easterly point in Great Britain, Ness Point, is to be found in this seat, which also covers the towns of Lowestoft, Beccles and Bungay. Lowestoft is the electoral centre of the constituency, with more than half of the population. The economy of Lowestoft has long been based on the fishing industry and its port, but the town is also home to the southern headquarters of Shell, Bird's Eye and Sanyo. It is also a base for the maintenance of off-shore oil exploration installations. The decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding, fishing and canning - Waveney was the trademark of Co-op cans - has caused significant unemployment in the seat and given rise to the view that Waveney is East Anglia's "black spot". In the last few years the town has been better known as the hometown of rock band The Darkness, leading to proposals to name the streets on new estates after members of the band. In 1997, former local authority leader and Labour man Bob Blizzard took the seat off the Tories for the first time since 1959. His 21.5% majority seemed anomalous but he managed to maintain a healthy lead in 2001.
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