Talk:Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)

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[edit] Not a record. Nowhere near.

There are constituency names that have existed continuously since the earliest records of (the pre-UK English) Parliament, for example Bath, Cambridge, Carlisle. Orkney & Shetland should be a Scottish record though. Lewis Trondheim 11:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you missed the poing that this was in boundaries not names and from that point of view it is the only unchanged constituency in the past 300 years. Yes the other constituencies have retained the same names but on vastly different boundaries. Galloglass 13:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Except that Orkney & Shetland's boundaries date only from 1918 as well... ;) Although that might actually be a record for all I know...Lewis Trondheim 19:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)