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List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament, as at the 2005 general election. Each constituency is represented by a single Member of Parliament (MP).

Constituency boundaries are subject to regular review by an independent Boundary Commission, usually once every 10 to 15 years, to keep the electorate of each constituency as close to the national average as is reasonably possible. New constituencies may be created, or existing ones abolished, by these reviews. For the list of recommended constituencies following the current review see Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election

Constituencies were long based on boroughs (burghs in Scotland) and counties. Today, constituencies in England are mostly subdivisions of local authorities, with each constituency being comprised of a number of whole wards. In Scotland, constituencies are subdivisions of council areas, and in Wales they are subdivisions of the preserved counties. Northern Ireland is reviewed as a whole, and constituency boundaries may cross all district borders.

In some cases, particularly in urban areas, two or more local government areas may be combined together to form a single review area, so that particularly large or small constituencies are not created. For example, if two adjacent areas are entitled to 1.5 constituencies each, they may be combined together and awarded three constituencies, rather than having two constituencies each, all of which would be well below the average constituency electorate.

The Parliament of 2001 contained representatives from 659 constituencies. Most of the current constituency boundaries were last reviewed in the early 1990s, and are therefore based on administrative boundaries prior to the last series of local government boundary changes. However, a Boundary Commission for Scotland review in February 2005 resulted in the reorganisation of most Scottish constituencies to adjust for the historic over-representation of Scotland. This reduced the number of constituencies in Scotland by 13, from 72 down to the current 59. The Parliament of 2005 therefore had 646 representatives.


Contents
1 England
1.1 East MidlandsDerbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire
1.2 East of EnglandBedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
1.3 Greater LondonNorth East, North West, South East, South West
1.4 North East EnglandCleveland, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
1.5 North West EnglandCheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside
1.6 South East EnglandBerkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex
1.7 South West EnglandAvon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire
1.8 West MidlandsHereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands
1.9 Yorkshire and HumbersideHumberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
2 Northern Ireland
3 ScotlandHighlands and Islands, North East Scotland, Central Scotland, Fife, Lothian, South of Scotland, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire
4 Wales

England

East Midlands

Derbyshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

Leicestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

Lincolnshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

East of England

Bedfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire

Cambridgeshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

Essex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Hertfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

Norfolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

Suffolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

Greater London

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

North East London Boroughs

North West London Boroughs

South East London Boroughs

South West London Boroughs

North East England

Cleveland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

Durham

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

Northumberland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

Tyne and Wear

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

North West England

Cheshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

Cumbria

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

Greater Manchester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

Lancashire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

Merseyside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

South East England

Berkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

East Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

Hampshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent

Oxfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

Surrey

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

West Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

South West England

Avon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

Cornwall

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall

Devon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Dorset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

Gloucestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

Somerset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

Wiltshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

West Midlands

Hereford and Worcester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Shropshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Staffordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

Warwickshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire

West Midlands (county)

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

Yorkshire and Humberside

Humberside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

North Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Northern Ireland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

Scotland

Main article: List of UK Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland

Please note that the subheadings used in the Scotland section are not official: they do not correspond to any modern administrative or electoral system, but they do follow approximate geographical or historical political subdivisions. Several constituencies overlap the given subheadings , in which case they have been listed under the subheading where most of the electors live.

Highlands and Islands

North East Scotland

Central Scotland

Fife

Lothian

South of Scotland

Ayrshire

Lanarkshire

Glasgow

Dunbartonshire

Renfrewshire

Wales

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wales

See also

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