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Aberdeenshire North and Moray East is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Following the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election , since when it has been held by Seamus Logan of the Scottish National Party .
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Under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland was created on 3 May 1921, [3] and the seats in the area it covered were reduced in number from 30 to 13, across 10 constituencies. Under these boundaries, Antrim , Down , and Fermanagh and Tyrone each elected two MPs using the bloc voting system , and Northern Ireland had one ...
Aberdeen North is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1885 general election , but has undergone various boundary changes since that date.
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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.
The constituencies which returned one or two members to the UK Parliament, between 1922 and 1950, were used for Northern Ireland devolved elections in the 1921–29 period. Between 1929 and 1969 there were 48 single member constituencies, using the first past the post method of election.
In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty secured independence for the Irish Free State, comprising that part of Ireland not in Northern Ireland, which was to take effect on 6 November 1922. From the 1922 Westminster election, held on 15 November, only the six counties of Northern Ireland were represented in Parliament.