Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies/Constituencies in England/Contents of Articles

This article provides a list of UK Parliament constituencies in England/Contents of Articles. Each entry incorporates the name of the article, the official names and periods of the constituencies included.

Criteria for linking constituencies in one article
The article should relate to roughly the same area. The constituency in each period included should have an identical or similar name. The article name should follow the form of the most recent version of the constituency (this relates to things like the use or non use of hyphens and variation of spelling).

In general the trend over time has been to make the constituency names more official and to reduce the amount of punctuation. Therefore forms like 'St Albans' and 'Birmingham Edgbaston' are preferred to 'St. Albans' and 'Birmingham, Edgbaston'. Only constituencies with three or four place names included in the official name will include commas in the article name.

Before 1950 English county constituencies using compass point division names were usually referred to in a form like 'Southern Dorset'. Since 1950 the form would be 'South Dorset'. To avoid confusion the latter form is used for all article names of this type. The only exceptions are the divisions of West Riding of Yorkahire as 'North West Riding of Yorkshire' is more confusing than 'Northern West Riding of Yorkshire'.

Where there is scope for confusion unofficial prefixes or suffixes are used, unless there is an official one at some point. Thus 'City of Durham' is used for the Durham constituency, even though the official prefix was only added in recent redistributions. Another official example is 'Richmond (Yorks)'. By analogy unofficial suffixes are used such as 'Wellington (Shropshire)' and 'Wellington (Somerset)'. These may sometimes disambiguate from constituencies in other parts of the United Kingdom, like 'Louth (Lincolnshire)' to distinguish it from the Irish 'County Louth'.