List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

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This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 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 average constituency size is approximately 74,000 registered voters, but they vary in size from the smallest, Na h-Eileanan an Iar - 22,200 voters, to the largest - The Isle of Wight approx. 110,000 voters. A constituency has no physical size restrictions.

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 Midlands	Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire
1.2 East of England	Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
1.3 Greater London	North East, North West, South East, South West
1.4 North East England	Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear
1.5 North West England	Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside
1.6 South East England	Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex
1.7 South West England	Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire
1.8 West Midlands	Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands
1.9 Yorkshire and Humberside	Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
2 Northern Ireland
3 Scotland
4 Wales

[edit] England

[edit] East Midlands

[edit] Derbyshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

[edit] Leicestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

[edit] Lincolnshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

[edit] Northamptonshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

[edit] Nottinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

[edit] East of England

[edit] Bedfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire

[edit] Cambridgeshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

[edit] Essex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

[edit] Hertfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

[edit] Norfolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

[edit] Suffolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

[edit] Greater London

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

[edit] North East London Boroughs

[edit] North West London Boroughs

[edit] South East London Boroughs

[edit] South West London Boroughs

[edit] North East England

[edit] Cleveland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

[edit] Durham

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

[edit] Northumberland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

[edit] Tyne and Wear

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

[edit] North West England

[edit] Cheshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

[edit] Cumbria

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

[edit] Greater Manchester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

[edit] Lancashire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

[edit] Merseyside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

[edit] South East England

[edit] Berkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire

[edit] Buckinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

[edit] East Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

[edit] Hampshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

[edit] Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

[edit] Kent

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent

[edit] Oxfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

[edit] Surrey

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

[edit] West Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

[edit] South West England

[edit] Avon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

[edit] Cornwall

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall

[edit] Devon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

[edit] Dorset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

[edit] Gloucestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

[edit] Somerset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

[edit] Wiltshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

[edit] West Midlands

[edit] Hereford and Worcester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

[edit] Shropshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

[edit] Staffordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

[edit] Warwickshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire

[edit] West Midlands (county)

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

[edit] Yorkshire and Humberside

[edit] Humberside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

[edit] North Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

[edit] South Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

[edit] West Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

[edit] Northern Ireland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

[edit] Scotland

Main article: Scottish Westminster constituencies from 2005

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. Some council areas were grouped to form larger areas and, within these larger areas, some constituencies straddle council area boundaries.

The same council area and ward boundaries were in use when the new constituencies were first used in 2005, but ward boundaries have changed since then. New wards were introduced for the 2007 Scottish local government elections.

Council areas	Constituencies
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire	Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Banff and Buchan Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Angus and Dundee City	Angus Dundee East Dundee West
Argyll and Bute	Argyll and Bute
City of Edinburgh	Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West
Clackmannanshire and Perth and Kinross	Ochil and South Perthshire Perth and North Perthshire
Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Lanark and Hamilton East Rutherglen and Hamilton West
East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Central Ayrshire Kilmarnock and Loudoun North Ayrshire and Arran
East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East East Dunbartonshire Motherwell and Wishaw
East Lothian	East Lothian
East Renfrewshire	East Renfrewshire
Falkirk and West Lothian	Falkirk Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston
Fife	Dunfermline and West Fife Glenrothes Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath North East Fife
Glasgow City	Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West
Highland	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Inverclyde	Inverclyde
Midlothian	Midlothian
Moray	Moray
Na h-Eileanan Siar	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands	Orkney and Shetland
Renfrewshire	Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Stirling	Stirling
West Dunbartonshire	West Dunbartonshire

[edit] Wales

[edit] See also

List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election - constituencies created by the four Boundary Commissions, including recommendations still pending final approval

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