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There are 650 constituencies for the UK House of Commons. In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called "constituencies" as opposed to "wards":
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.
Constituency Electorate Ceremonial county Local authority Bishop Auckland CC: 70,879 Durham: County Durham: Blaydon and Consett CC: 70,163 Durham / Tyne and Wear: County Durham / Gateshead: Blyth and Ashington CC: 75,452 Northumberland: Northumberland: City of Durham CC: 72,878 Durham County Durham Cramlington and Killingworth CC: 73,295 ...
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.
In the past, only male adult property owners could stand for Parliament. In 1918, women acquired the right to stand for Parliament, and to vote. To be eligible to stand as an MP, a person must be at least 18 years old and be a citizen of the UK, a Commonwealth nation, or Ireland. A person is not required to be registered to vote, nor are there ...
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 ]
This article lists constituency names A-M. For constituency names N-Z see Official names of United Kingdom parliamentary constituencies in England N–Z. An index of the constituency articles, showing which constituency names from this list they include, can be found at Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England A-M and Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in ...
the five island constituencies are permitted to have a smaller electorate than the usual limit; a constituency with an area of more than 12,000 square kilometres (4,630 sq mi) may have a smaller electorate than the usual limit; and; constituencies in Northern Ireland may be subject to slightly different limits under certain circumstances.