Talk:United Kingdom constituencies

History
I am wondering when it became appropriate to refer to UK constituencies. 1707? And: did Scotland have constituencies (so called) prior to 1707? I am thinking about whether and how the article might be expanded with a history of the use of constituencies in what are now parts of the UK. Laurel Bush 11:40, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC).

Technically, the United Kingdom came into existence in 1801, with the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Today it is officially the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Both England and Scotland had Parliaments elected by constituency even before 1707, although of course the franchise was much more restricted than today. The history of UK parliamentary constituencies is indeed a fascinating one, but unfortunately I am not the person to do it justice. Alex Swanson 14:57, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

A dimension of the history is now developing in List of former Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom. Laurel Bush 10:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC).

EU
Shouldn't something on the UK's EU parliamentary constituencies be added? Andelarion 22:10, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Candidates for next general election
Declaring my interest as a candidate, at what point should candidates for the next general election be mentionned, or only afterwards? MikeHobday 18:34, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Expenditure limits?
Our table says that the expenditure limits for Westminster elections are £7,150 + 5p/7p per elector in boroughs and counties respectively. Do we have a source for this? Section 76 ("Limitation of election expenses") of the Representation of the People Act 1983 would seem to be the thing, but according to the version online (which includes amendments) - viz:



The limit is £5,483 + 4.6/6.2. Who's right? The SLD is sometimes behind in applying amendments, but in the absence of a citation on this page, i have no idea what's going on.

Time passes ...

Okay, got it - this was changed in a 2005 SI that hasn't been applied to the SLD yet. I'll add the citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.56.106.202 (talk) 18:30, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Limits as of May 2015
For the General Election of May 2015, the limits for UK constituencies are:


 * Long campaign: £30,700 + per-constituent spend
 * Short campaign: £8,700 + per-constituent spend

The per-constituent spend is:


 * 6p per registered parliamentary elector in a borough constituency (burgh constituency in Scotland), or
 * 9p per registered parliamentary elector in a county constituency.

Source - Page http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/candidate-or-agent/uk-parliamentary-general-election-great-britain PDF direct link - http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/173074/UKPGE-Part-3-Spending-and-donations.pdf

Seantellis (talk) 21:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

County constituencies and borough constituencies
"County constituencies are the successors to the historic parliamentary divisions of counties, and most are predominantly rural in nature. Sometimes a town can be covered by more than one constituency, with one a borough and another a county. Reading and Milton Keynes are both examples of this." Can this be written more clearly, because I can't relate it to the reality in Milton Keynes (borough) and therefore can't see what the editor intended to say. Looking at Reading East and Reading West, I can see parallels with Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West, but nothing that matches the text in either case. In every case, the constituency consists of an urban element and a rural element. Neither element is predominant in terms of electors (though in MK, 'North East' is physically the larger of the two). So is the text saying that, in each case, the tag 'Borough Constituency' or 'County Constituency' has been attached fairly arbitrarily?

[For background, the (certainly rural) Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency) was split in 1983 into a revised Buckingham and a new Milton Keynes (UK Parliament constituency) as the population of Milton Keynes grew. The Milton Keynes constitency was split again in 1992 to its present configuration (and has just been rejigged to increase the urban component of the new Milton Keynes North (UK Parliament constituency) to equalise their population).] --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

size?
There is no information here about the size (population) of an average constituency, or how much they vary. That seems an important fact that is omitted. T-bonham (talk) 19:30, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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County, borough, etc.
Are the constituency qualifiers of county, borough, etc, still relevant and used or should they be consigned to the history section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taylornk (talk • contribs) 10:07, 3 October 2019 (UTC)