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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.
UK House of Commons constituencies in 2024 The following 650 seats were contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies . [ 1 ]
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 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 House of Commons (see Constituencies of the Parliament of the United ...
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 ...
There were 300 seats in the Irish House of Commons in 1800, elected in 150 2-member constituencies: 32 county constituencies, 117 borough constituencies, and one university constituency. Under the Act of Union 1800 , Ireland was divided into constituencies to elect 100 MPs for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament .
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 ...
This is a chronological list of parliamentary constituencies in the Kingdom of Great Britain and its successor state the United Kingdom which were represented by sitting prime ministers. A majority of constituencies are or were (in the case of those abolished) in England, apart from three in Wales and six in Scotland.