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This article contains a List of multi-member constituencies in the United Kingdom and predecessor Parliaments. It is sub-divided into England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (including Northern Ireland from 1922). This list excludes periods when a constituency only returned one member. The from date is the year from which the multi-member constituency is known to have been regularly represented ...
The multi-member University constituencies would elect their representatives using STV. As only one constituency had as many as three seats and the others only two, the trial of STV was not very satisfactory, but it did loosen the traditional Conservative Party grip on most of the university seats and encouraged the election of Independents.
Under the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, as amended by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, the number of MPs is now fixed at 650. The Sainte-Laguë formula method is used to form groups of seats split between the four parts of the United Kingdom and the English regions (as defined by the NUTS 1 statistical ...
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 additional-member system (AMS) is a two-vote seat-linkage-based mixed electoral system used in the United Kingdom in which most representatives are elected in single-member districts (SMDs), and a fixed number of other "additional members" are elected from a closed list to make the seat distribution in the chamber more proportional to the votes cast for party lists.
There are 73 Holyrood constituencies covering Scotland, and each elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first-past-the-post system. Also, the constituencies are grouped into eight electoral regions, and each of these regions elects seven additional members, to produce a form or degree of mixed-member proportional representation.
All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. [3] [4]