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List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (2005–2010)

This is a list of the 646 previous constituencies of the United Kingdom parliament.

There are 650 in the 2010 election[clarification needed] constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election.[clarification needed] Each constituency is represented by a single Member of Parliament (MP).

Constituency boundaries are subject to regular review by the four independent Boundary Commissions, 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 comprising 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 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 and awarded three constituencies, rather than having two constituencies each, all of which would be well below the average constituency electorate.

The average constituency size is approximately 74,000 registered voters, but they vary in size from the smallest (Na h-Eileanan an Iar at 22,200 voters) to the largest (the Isle of Wight at approximately 110,000 voters). A constituency has no physical size restrictions.

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. In the 2010 Election on 6 May 2010 the number of seats contested has increased from 646 to 650 as a result of boundary changes. Technically an absolute majority would require one party to win 326 seats, or else there would be a hung parliament.


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 the Humber Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
2 Northern Ireland
3 Scotland
4 Wales

England edit

East Midlands edit

Derbyshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

Leicestershire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

Lincolnshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

East of England edit

Bedfordshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

Essex edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Hertfordshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

Norfolk edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

Suffolk edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

Greater London edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

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 edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

Durham edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

Northumberland edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

Tyne and Wear edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

North West England edit

Cheshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

Cumbria edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

Greater Manchester edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

Lancashire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

Merseyside edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

South East England edit

Berkshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire

Buckinghamshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

East Sussex edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

Hampshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

Isle of Wight edit

Kent edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent

Oxfordshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

Surrey edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

West Sussex edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

South West England edit

Avon edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

Cornwall edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall

Devon edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Dorset edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

Gloucestershire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

Somerset edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

Wiltshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

West Midlands edit

Hereford and Worcester edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Shropshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Staffordshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

Warwickshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire

West Midlands (county) edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (county)

Yorkshire and the Humber edit

Humberside edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

North Yorkshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Northern Ireland edit

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

Scotland edit

Main article: Scottish Westminster constituencies from 2005

The Fifth Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission for Scotland related the boundaries of new constituencies to those of Scottish local government council areas and to local government wards. Apart from a few minor adjustments, the council area boundaries dated from 1996 and the ward boundaries dated from 1999. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.

Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders edit

South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire edit

North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire edit

East Lothian, Midlothian edit

City of Edinburgh edit

West Lothian, Falkirk edit

West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire edit

Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde edit

Glasgow City edit

Stirling, Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross edit

Fife edit

Angus, Dundee City edit

Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City edit

Moray, Argyll and Bute, Highland edit

Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland edit

Wales edit

See also edit

External links edit

  • "ONS Map of Constituencies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2006. (3.85 MiB)
  • ONS List of Constituencies (CSV file)
  • TheyWorkForYou.com
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