North West Hampshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
North West Hampshire is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
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the remote north country’s
rice-planting song.”
—Matsuo Basho (1644–1694)
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