Constituencies covering Ayrshire may be listed by periods as below, but the story is somewhat more complicated than the lists may imply: until 1918, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs included burghs lying outside both Ayrshire and Buteshire ; a particular constituency name may represent different boundaries in different periods ; in 1974, there were boundary changes without the creation of any new constituency names.

" Members must refer to each other in the third person by the title of their constituency or their ministerial titles ( not their names ); they may not directly address anyone other than the Speaker ( who does call them by name ).

Their names had been forwarded to the party's constituency councils which would finalize nominations in due course.

The name comes from the River Foyle which the city lies on and is used to avoid the contentious names of Derry or Londonderry, as well as to cover the areas of County Tyrone that were originally in the constituency.

In stage two, the names of respondents expressing interest went into a pool for their constituency.

As is suggested by the names of the towns in the riding, the constituency abutted on the city of Toronto's northern border.

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network, which had some 6, 000 observers in the 8, 000 polling stations, says that some 10 % of would-be voters were turned away, either because their names were not on the electoral roll, they did not have the right identity papers, or they were in the wrong constituency.

Originally created for the 15th Saskatchewan general election in 1964, this constituency has changed boundaries and names many times.

:: It is obviously right that constituency names should as far as possible reflect the geography and character of the constituency but equally they should be as succinct as reasonably possible

The BNP announced on 2 December 2010 its intention to launch a court action to have the Barking election result overturned under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, using the precedent set in the Oldham and Saddleworth constituency of Phil Woolas who was ejected from his seat for lying about his opponents during the election campaign.

In boundary changes resulting from a review in 1995, however, a section of Dungannon and South Tyrone ( then simply called Dungannon ) district around the town of Coalisland was transferred to the Mid Ulster constituency.

The constituency is located in the southern section of the City of Winnipeg.

A traditional Tory section of northern Cardiff, over half of northern Cardiff consists of owner-occupied housing with a higher number of a middle class population than other sections, the Conservatives have recovered from the low points of the mid-1990s, and now hold the majority of the council seats forming the constituency ( 13, against five Liberal Democrats, three independents and no Labour ).

The constituency covers the eastern section of the county of Surrey, including the entirety of the Tandridge district and the town of Horley, which is located in the Reigate and Banstead district.

The northern section ( Earls Court, South Kensington, Kensington High Street and Holland Park ) was combined with the southern section of the previous Regent's Park and Kensington North constituency ( including Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill ) to create a new Kensington constituency, whilst the southern part ( Chelsea ) was combined with the southern half of the former Hammersmith and Fulham constituency to create a new Chelsea and Fulham constituency.

The constituency incorporated the eastern-most section of the London Borough of Ealing ( covering Ealing and Acton ) as well as the northern part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham ( covering Shepherd's Bush and White City, including the BBC Television Centre ).

The section which fell within the London Borough of Ealing was combined with parts of central Ealing to create a new Ealing Central and Acton constituency, whilst the area falling within the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham ( namely Shepherd's Bush ) was combined with the northern part of the old Hammersmith and Fulham constituency to create a new Hammersmith seat.

The constituency has a high proportion of people of South Asian origin, and this section of the community has historically supported the Labour Party.

The Boroughs in each county follow the county constituency ( indicated by boldface and an * after the constituency name ).

The southern and western constituency boundaries follow Lambeth's borough boundaries with Croydon, Merton and Wandsworth.

In the list below the name of the constituency ( as specified in Section X of the Instrument of Government, with minor spelling changes ) is followed by the number of seats allocated.

In the redistribution of 1983, the spelling of the official name of the constituency was changed.

From 1918 to 1970 the official spelling of the constituency name was Llanelly.

The constituency area continued to include the same local authorities as in 1918 ( apart from a spelling change to Llandilo for the part RDC included ):

At the 1970 general election the official spelling of the constituency name was altered to Llanelli.

The parishes of Jersey are further divided into vingtaines ( or, in St. Ouen, cueillettes ), divisions which are historic and nowadays mostly used for purposes of electoral constituency in municipal elections.

The degree of proportionality also varies ; it is determined by factors such as the precise formula used to allocate seats, the number of seats in each constituency or in the elected body as a whole, and the level of any minimum threshold for election.

This system is used in many countries, including Finland ( open list ), Latvia ( open list ), Sweden ( open list ), Israel ( where the whole country is one closed list constituency ), Brazil ( open list ), the Netherlands ( open list ), Russia ( closed list ), South Africa ( closed list ), Democratic Republic of the Congo ( open list ).

In the last Irish elections to the UK Parliament in 1919, STV was used in the University of Dublin constituency ; two Independent Unionists were elected.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using PR-STV in its MMDs, an absolute majority of 50 % plus 1 will likely be the minimum required for victory ( depending on which quota is used ) so that the election in the SMD is by the alternative vote.

While runoff voting is designed to ensure that each individual candidate elected is supported by a majority of those in their constituency, if used to elect an assembly it does not ensure this result on a national level.

The voting system used is that of proportional representation with closed party lists following D ' Hondt method in which the province forms a constituency or electoral circumscription and must be assigned a minimum of 2 deputies ; the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, are each assigned one deputy.

Between 7 and 19 deputies are elected from each constituency using the d ' Hondt method ( with one exception, in 2001, when the Sainte-Laguë method was used ), their number being proportional to their constituency's population.

The single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used in multi-member constituency elections.

Mutesa used his political power to protect the interests of his Baganda constituency, and he refused to support demands for Africanization of the officer ranks.

A university constituency is a constituency, used in elections to a legislature, that represents a university rather than a geographical area.

The wards and boundaries for the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliament constituency ( red ) as first used in the United Kingdom general election, 2010 | 2010 general election, shown within the London Borough of Bromley ( yellow )

The name Kilmarnock and Loudoun continues to be used for a constituency of the House of Commons and, covering a similar area, a Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency of the Scottish Parliament.

At the regional or national level ( i. e. above the constituency level ) several different calculation methods have been used:

* In the Italian model of AMS, used 1993-2005, for every constituency seat won by a party, that party's vote total was reduced by the number of votes received by the second-place candidate in the constituency, subject to the condition that the deduction cannot be less than either 25 % of the total votes cast in the constituency, or the votes received by the winning candidate, whichever is less.

The British government announced on 22 November 2006 that the two separate ballot papers used in the previous Scottish Parliament elections would be replaced for the elections in May 2007 by a single paper — with the left side listing the parties standing for election as regional MSPs and the right side the candidates standing as constituency MSPs.

At the regional or national level ( i. e. above the constituency level ) several different calculation methods have been used, but the basic characteristic of the MMP is that the total number of seats in the assembly, including the single-member seats and not only the party-list ones, are allocated to parties proportionally to the number of votes the party received in the party portion of the ballot.

Towcester used to be within the parliamentary constituency of Daventry.

In UK constituency elections, which typically feature three or more candidates representing major parties, a plurality is sometimes referred to as a " majority " or a " relative majority " while the terms " overall majority " or " absolute majority " are used to describe the support of more than one half of votes cast.

Jurong used to be an independent political constituency in the 1959 general elections.

A rotten, decayed, or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within the Unreformed House of Commons.