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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, Orkney and Shetland - approx. 35,000 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

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Derbyshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater London

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cleveland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in County Durham

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northumberland

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cheshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cumbria

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lancashire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Merseyside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Berkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Surrey

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Gloucestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Midlands

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in North Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

Main article: List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

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

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