East Berkshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
East Berkshire was a county constituency in the county of Berkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
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