Fourth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies
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The Fourth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies was undertaken in the United Kingdom between 1991 and 1995 by the Boundary Commissions.[1] This resulted in changes to constituency boundaries, although the total number of seats remained at 650 as in the Third Periodic Review. 138 new constituencies were created. The new boundaries were first used for the 1997 general election.
Changes
New seats included:
- Aberdeen Central (UK Parliament constituency)
- Airdrie and Shotts (UK Parliament constituency)
- Altrincham and Sale West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Angus (UK Parliament constituency)
- Arundel and South Downs (UK Parliament constituency)
- Barnsley East and Mexborough (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)
- North East Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bethnal Green and Bow (UK Parliament constituency)
- Beverley and Holderness (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bexleyheath and Crayford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath (UK Parliament constituency)
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (UK Parliament constituency)
- Boston and Skegness (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bracknell (UK Parliament constituency)
- Brigg and Goole (UK Parliament constituency)
- Bromley and Chislehurst (UK Parliament constituency)
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)
- Camberwell and Peckham (UK Parliament constituency)
- North West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- South Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Cannock Chase (UK Parliament constituency)
- Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (UK Parliament constituency)
- Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Charnwood (UK Parliament constituency)
- Chatham and Aylesford (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Chingford and Woodford Green (UK Parliament constituency)
- Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)
- Clwyd South (UK Parliament constituency)
- Clwyd West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Coatbridge and Chryston (UK Parliament constituency)
- Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)
- The Cotswolds (UK Parliament constituency)
- Coventry South (UK Parliament constituency)
- Croydon North (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Devon (UK Parliament constituency)
- South West Devon (UK Parliament constituency)
- Mid Dorset and North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)
- Dudley North (UK Parliament constituency)
- Dudley South (UK Parliament constituency)
- Dulwich and West Norwood (UK Parliament constituency)
- Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)
- Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)
- Erith and Thamesmead (UK Parliament constituency)
- Esher and Walton (UK Parliament constituency)
- North Essex (UK Parliament constituency)
- Faversham and Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency)
- Finchley and Golders Green (UK Parliament constituency)
- Gateshead East and Washington West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Glasgow Anniesland (UK Parliament constituency)
- Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency)
- Glasgow Kelvin (UK Parliament constituency)
- Grantham and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Greenock and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)
- Greenwich and Woolwich (UK Parliament constituency)
- Halesowen and Rowley Regis (UK Parliament constituency)
- Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hamilton North and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hamilton South (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hammersmith and Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)
- North East Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Harrogate and Knaresborough (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hemel Hempstead (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hendon (UK Parliament constituency)
- North East Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Hitchin and Harpenden (UK Parliament constituency)
- Kensington and Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency)
- Kingston and Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency)
- Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle (UK Parliament constituency)
- Knowsley North and Sefton East (UK Parliament constituency)
- Lancaster and Wyre (UK Parliament constituency)
- Leyton and Wanstead (UK Parliament constituency)
- Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)
- Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)
- Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency)
- Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)
- Maidstone and The Weald (UK Parliament constituency)
- Maldon and East Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (UK Parliament constituency)
- Morley and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency)
- Motherwell and Wishaw (UK Parliament constituency)
- New Forest East (UK Parliament constituency)
- New Forest West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend (UK Parliament constituency)
- North Tyneside (UK Parliament constituency)
- Ochil (UK Parliament constituency)
- Oldham East and Saddleworth (UK Parliament constituency)
- Oldham West and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
- Perth (UK Parliament constituency)
- Poplar and Canning Town (UK Parliament constituency)
- Preseli Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Rayleigh (UK Parliament constituency)
- Redditch (UK Parliament constituency)
- Regent's Park and Kensington North (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)
- Rochford and Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)
- Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Runnymede and Weybridge (UK Parliament constituency)
- Salford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Scarborough and Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)
- Scunthorpe (UK Parliament constituency)
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey (UK Parliament constituency)
- Sleaford and North Hykeham (UK Parliament constituency)
- South Holland and The Deepings (UK Parliament constituency)
- North Southwark and Bermondsey (UK Parliament constituency)
- Stone (UK Parliament constituency)
- Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
- Stretford and Urmston (UK Parliament constituency)
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)
- Surrey Heath (UK Parliament constituency)
- North Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)
- South Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)
- Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)
- Telford (UK Parliament constituency)
- Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
- Tiverton and Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)
- Totnes (UK Parliament constituency)
- Truro and St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
- Warley (UK Parliament constituency)
- Weaver Vale (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Ham (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)
- Windsor (UK Parliament constituency)
- West Worcestershire (UK Parliament constituency)
- East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)
- Worthing West (UK Parliament constituency)
- Wythenshawe and Sale East (UK Parliament constituency)
References
- ^ Rossiter 1999, The Boundary Commissions: Redrawing the UK's Map of Parliamentary Constituencies