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List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

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This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament, as at the 2005 general election. Each constituency is represented by a single Member of Parliament (MP).

Constituency boundaries are subject to regular review by an independent Boundary Commission, usually once every 10 to 15 years, to keep the electorate of each constituency as close to the national average as is reasonably possible. New constituencies may be created, or existing ones abolished, by these reviews. For the list of recommended constituencies following the current review see Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election

Constituencies were long based on boroughs (burghs in Scotland) and counties. Today, constituencies in England are mostly subdivisions of local authorities, with each constituency being comprised of a number of whole wards. In Scotland, constituencies are subdivisions of council areas, and in Wales they are subdivisions of the preserved counties. Northern Ireland is reviewed as a whole, and constituency boundaries may cross all district borders.

In some cases, particularly in urban areas, two or more local government areas may be combined together to form a single review area, so that particularly large or small constituencies are not created. For example, if two adjacent areas are entitled to 1.5 constituencies each, they may be combined together and awarded three constituencies, rather than having two constituencies each, all of which would be well below the average constituency electorate.

The Parliament of 2001 contained representatives from 659 constituencies. Most of the current constituency boundaries were last reviewed in the early 1990s, and are therefore based on administrative boundaries prior to the last series of local government boundary changes. However, a Boundary Commission for Scotland review in February 2005 resulted in the reorganisation of most Scottish constituencies to adjust for the historic over-representation of Scotland. This reduced the number of constituencies in Scotland by 13, from 72 down to the current 59. The Parliament of 2005 therefore had 646 representatives.


Contents
1 England
1.1 East Midlands Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire
1.2 East of England Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
1.3 Greater London North East, North West, South East, South West
1.4 North East England Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
1.5 North West England Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside
1.6 South East England Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex
1.7 South West England Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire
1.8 West Midlands Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands
1.9 Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
2 Northern Ireland
3 Scotland Highlands and Islands, North East Scotland, Central Scotland, Fife, Lothian, South of Scotland, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire
4 Wales

[edit] England

[edit] East Midlands

[edit] Derbyshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

[edit] Leicestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

[edit] Lincolnshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

[edit] Northamptonshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

[edit] Nottinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

[edit] East of England

[edit] Bedfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire

[edit] Cambridgeshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

[edit] Essex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

[edit] Hertfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

[edit] Norfolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

[edit] Suffolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

[edit] Greater London

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

[edit] North East London Boroughs

[edit] North West London Boroughs

[edit] South East London Boroughs

[edit] South West London Boroughs

[edit] North East England

[edit] Cleveland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

[edit] Durham

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

[edit] Northumberland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

[edit] Tyne and Wear

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

[edit] North West England

[edit] Cheshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

[edit] Cumbria

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

[edit] Greater Manchester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

[edit] Lancashire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

[edit] Merseyside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

[edit] South East England

[edit] Berkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire

[edit] Buckinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

[edit] East Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

[edit] Hampshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

[edit] Isle of Wight

[edit] Kent

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent

[edit] Oxfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

[edit] Surrey

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

[edit] West Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

[edit] South West England

[edit] Avon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

[edit] Cornwall

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall

[edit] Devon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

[edit] Dorset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

[edit] Gloucestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

[edit] Somerset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

[edit] Wiltshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

[edit] West Midlands

[edit] Hereford and Worcester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

[edit] Shropshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

[edit] Staffordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

[edit] Warwickshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire

[edit] West Midlands (county)

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

[edit] Yorkshire and Humberside

[edit] Humberside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

[edit] North Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

[edit] South Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

[edit] West Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

[edit] Northern Ireland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

[edit] Scotland

Main article: List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland

Please note that the subheadings used in the Scotland section are not official: they do not correspond to any modern administrative or electoral system, but they do follow approximate geographical or historical political subdivisions. Several constituencies overlap the given subheadings , in which case they have been listed under the subheading where most of the electors live.

[edit] Highlands and Islands

[edit] North East Scotland

[edit] Central Scotland

[edit] Fife

[edit] Lothian

[edit] South of Scotland

[edit] Ayrshire

[edit] Lanarkshire

[edit] Glasgow

[edit] Dunbartonshire

[edit] Renfrewshire

[edit] Wales

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wales

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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