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Consett was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918 for the 1918 general election. It succeeded the abolished North West Division of Durham , comprising the whole of that seat, excluding Tanfield , which was included in the new constituency of Blaydon , and Lanchester , which was transferred to Barnard Castle .
Blaydon and Consett is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Created as a result of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and is currently held by Liz Twist of the Labour Party, who previously represented the abolished Blaydon constituency from 2017 to 2024.
The Consett area is currently divided into four electoral divisions (Benfieldside; Consett North; Delves Lane and Consett South; and Leadgate and Medomsley), each electing two county councillors. The town unlike most other towns and villages in County Durham is unparished and has no town council. Consett was part of the constituency of North ...
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 the unitary authority of County Durham with the Tyne and Wear boroughs of Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland as a sub-region of the North East Region, with the creation of a cross-county ...
See: Hartlepool for Hartlepool constituency and Stockton-on-Tees for Stockton North and South constituencies. East Riding of Yorkshire , Kingston upon Hull and North and North East Lincolnshire [ edit ]
One quarter of the newly seated U.S. House and Senate are people of color. Less than a third are women.
A constituency Labour Party (CLP) is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary constituency. In England and Wales, CLP boundaries coincide with those for UK parliamentary constituencies. In Scotland, CLP boundaries align with constituencies of the Scottish Parliament.
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.