Portsmouth North (UK Parliament Constituency)
Portsmouth North is a borough constituency which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system. The current MP is Penny Mordaunt of the Conservative Party who was first elected at the 2010 general election.
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