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The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.
South West England [3] Constituency Electorate Ceremonial county Local authority Bath CC: 73,241 Somerset: Bath and North East Somerset: Bournemouth East BC: 73,173 Dorset: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: Bournemouth West BC: 72,094 Dorset Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bridgwater CC: 71,418 Somerset Somerset: Bristol Central BC ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
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.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of two new cross-county boundary constituencies: Selby which comprises the ...
The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 gives the Boundary Commissions for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland the power to create names for constituencies, and does not provide a set of statutory guidelines for the Commissions to follow in doing so.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the fifty-ninth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024–present). It includes MPs elected at the 2024 general election, held on 4 July 2024. The number of constituences in England increased from 533 to 543 at this ...
The 2023 review was the successor to the 2018 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, which was abandoned after it failed to pass into law.After abandonment of several previous reviews since 2015, the 2023 review was set to be the first review based on electoral registers drawn up using Individual Electoral Registration, which Parliament approved from 2014–15. [4]