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The constituency of Falkirk West also sits in the Central Scotland Scottish Parliament electoral region which returns seven MSPs under the additional member system used to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament.
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Dennis Canavan, who had failed to become an approved Labour candidate, won the Falkirk West constituency as an independent candidate.
Falkirk is located within the Scottish parliamentary constituency of Falkirk West which elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) under the first past the post system.
In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the town is entirely contained within the UK parliamentary constituency of Falkirk which elects one member to the House of Commons under the plurality system.
At EU level, Falkirk is part of the pan-Scotland European Parliament constituency which elects seven Members of the European Parliament ( MEP ) s using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
Falkirk is the successor to Falkirk West, the constituency Canavan represented at Westminster from 1983 to 2000.
Following the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the Scottish boundaries were redrawn and his constituency was enlarged and renamed as Linlithgow and East Falkirk.
He was elected to parliament in the 2000 Falkirk West by-election, retaining his seat in the 2001 general election, and elected to the enlarged Falkirk constituency in the 2005 general election.
Joyce retained his seat in the 2001 general election, and was elected to the enlarged Falkirk constituency in the 2005 general election.
* Falkirk survey Survey carried out by Eric Joyce that covered 1 / 5 of the households in his constituency
* The burghs of Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth formed the Stirling and Falkirk burghs constituency.
in 1974 the constituency was renamed Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth.
He was selected to fight the Falkirk East constituency for the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, and was ranked fourth on the SNP's Central Scotland regional list.
The Falkirk West by-election, 2000 was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 December 2000 for the Scottish constituency of Falkirk West.
He has been an SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, first representing Central Scotland and, since 2007, the Falkirk West constituency.
Larbert is in the Falkirk West Scottish Parliament constituency.
In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Larbert is part of the Falkirk constituency, which elects one member to the House of Commons.
The current MP is Eric Joyce of the Labour Party who has represented the Falkirk constituency since a by-election in December 2000.
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Falkirk is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The constituency today includes the wards of Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn and Cwmavon, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg, Gwynfi, Margam, Port Talbot, Sandfields East, Sandfields West and Tai-bach.
He lived to see Labour return to power under Harold Wilson in 1964, but also to see his old constituency of Walthamstow West fall to the Conservatives in a by-election in September 1967.
It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
The party ran candidates in all 43 constituencies, and had candidates elected in every constituency except Dublin North – West.
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The national swing to Labour was 1 %; 4 % in Powell's heartland, the West Midlands conurbation ; and 16 % in his old constituency ( although Budgen won the seat ).
During the 1992 general election Powell spoke for Nicholas Budgen in his old seat of Wolverhampton South West UK Parliament constituency.
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For elections to the European Parliament, the county is part of the North – West constituency ( formerly Connacht – Ulster ).
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In the UK Parliament, Llandaff is part of the constituency of Cardiff West.
In the Welsh Assembly, Llandaff is part of the constituency of Cardiff West, whose current AM since 2011 is Mark Drakeford of Labour, he succeeded Rhodri Morgan upon the latter's retirement.
From 4 July 1870 the town was incorporated within the county constituency of West Somerset.
It is within the South West England ( European Parliament constituency ), which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
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Carlisle is within the North West England constituency of the European Parliament the North West's current MEPs are:
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