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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. 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 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 Cleveland, 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 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 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 Avon (county)|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 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 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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