North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Coordinates: 55°49′44″N 3°45′36″W / 55.829°N 3.760°W / 55.829; -3.760
| North East Lanarkshire | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| 1885 (1885)–1918 (1918) | |
| Number of members | One |
North East Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Read more about North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament Constituency): Boundaries, Member of Parliament, Election Results
Famous quotes containing the words north, east and/or parliament:
“We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary” but not transformative.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.”
—John Pym (1584–1643)