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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.
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 ]
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":
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.
The constituency comprises the following wards of South Lanarkshire: [2] [3]. In full: Hamilton North and East, Hamilton West and Earnock, Hamilton South, Larkhall. In part: Clydesdale West (small area to the west, including the village of Crossford), Clydesdale North (area to the south of the railway line between Carluke and Carstairs stations, including the town of Lanark), Clydesdale South ...
Cramlington and Killingworth is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election and is currently held by Emma Foody, a Labour and Co-operative MP. [3]
Streatham and Croydon North is a constituency [n 1] in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [2] It is currently represented by Steve Reed of the Labour and Co-operative Party, [n 2] who currently serves as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under the government of Keir Starmer.