List Of Parliamentary Constituencies In Avon
Avon is no longer a county council area, nor is it a ceremonial county, but the constituency boundaries used up to the United Kingdom general election, 2005 were drawn up when it was both. The area was divided into ten Parliamentary constituencies - five Borough constituencies and five County constituencies. These constituencies were first used at the 1983 general election, with their boundaries being revised for the 1997 election
Boundary Commission for England commenced a new review of the area in 2000 and concluded that a satisfactory scheme could be produced in which no constituency spanned the current unitary authority boundaries. They allocated four seats to Bristol, three to South Gloucestershire and two each to Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset - a net increase of one. The more compact Bath constituency was designated a Borough constituency, and constituency names were changed to relate to the new local authority names. These changes were implemented at the United Kingdom general election, 2010.
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