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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.
It was planned to take effect from the election in May 2022 before the 2019 general election but the Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill was not passed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Electoral Calculus predicted that the new seat would have been a fairly safe Conservative win, with 51.3% of the predicted vote. [ 4 ]
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.
Following the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, parliamentary terms last five years unless Parliament is dissolved sooner by the monarch at the prime minister's request. Under the Act, polling day occurs 25 working days after dissolution (previously, a minimum period of 17 working days applied).
Brigg and Immingham is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Created as a result of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. [3] The current MP is Conservative Martin Vickers, who represented the predecessor seat of Cleethorpes from 2010 to 2024.
The Inverclyde constituency was expanded to include Bridge of Weir and Houston in Renfrewshire, while Cardonald in Glasgow was added to Renfrew North (renamed from Paisley and Renfrewshire North). Paisley and Renfrewshire South was renamed Renfrew South. Na h-Eileanan an Iar and Orkney and Shetland: 2: 2: These constituencies remained protected ...
Uxbridge and South Ruislip is a constituency [n 1] in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation. The seat has been held by Danny Beales of the Labour Party since July 2024. From 2015 to 2023, the seat was held by former Prime Minister (2019–2022) Boris Johnson, of the Conservative Party.
The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23) equalised the population of constituencies; it split larger boroughs into multiple single-member constituencies, reduced smaller boroughs from two seats each to one, split each two-seat county and division into two single-member constituencies, and each three-seat county into single ...