Number Of Westminster MPs
Over the history of the House of Commons, the number of Members of Parliament (MPs) has varied for assorted reasons, with increases in recent years due to increases in the population of the United Kingdom. There are currently 650 constituencies, each sending one MP to the House of Commons, corresponding to approximately one for every 92,000 people, or one for every 68,000 parliamentary electors.
Under the current boundary review, due to be reported by 1 October 2013, the future number of seats will be reduced to 600. 596 of the seats are required to have a number of registered electors which is five per cent plus or minus an electoral quota of 76,641 registered electors (a range from 72,810 to 80,473 electors).
Read more about Number Of Westminster MPs: History, List of Constituencies Disenfranchised For Corruption and Re-allocated Seats 1821-1885, Number of MPs By Country
Famous quotes containing the words number of and/or number:
“Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)