This article contains a List of multi-member constituencies in the United Kingdom and predecessor Parliaments. It is sub-divided for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (including Northern Ireland from 1922).
This list excludes periods when a constituency only returned one member. The from date is the year from which the multi-member constituency is known to have been regularly represented. The until date is the year when the constituency was either disenfranchised or ceased to have more than one member. It covers the Parliament of England, the Protectorate Parliament, the Parliament of Scotland, the Parliament of Ireland, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
In some cases there were earlier periods of enfranchisement in the Parliament of England but those before the sixteenth century are excluded from this list. In the English and Welsh sub-lists the 'Prot' column only covers the first two Protectorate Parliaments (1654-1658). The English and Welsh seats in the third Protectorate Parliament (1659) used the same seats as the '<1826' column. For the Scottish and Irish sub-lists the 'Prot' column includes all three Protectorate Parliaments.
At present only the number of seats by constituency for the last Parliament of Scotland before the Union have been identified. The multi-member constituencies in that Parliament may well be much older.
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