Portsmouth West (UK Parliament Constituency)
Portsmouth West was a borough constituency in the city Portsmouth in Hampshire, England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
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