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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 ...
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 ...
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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 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.
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 UK House of Commons represents over 600 geographic areas called constituencies. Each constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The total number of constituencies varies as the boundaries are subject to regular review by an independent Boundary Commission. Often some constituencies are ...
The European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 established a new system of multi-member constituencies elected by a closed party list system based on the regions of England, plus Scotland and Wales. The single transferable vote system was retained in Northern Ireland. Because of the new system, retiring MEPs would be replaced by a different ...