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	UK Parliament - alcm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Alphabetical List of Constituencies and Members of Parliament
		Links to e-mail and websites are also given where available.
		A selective biography is provided by Dod’s Parliamentary Communications for each Member of Parliament.
	www.parliament.uk /directories/hciolists/alcm.cfm (127 words)

	Parliament 2003, part 2, National Campaign for Firework Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		My constituency has one of the pilot schemes for fixed penalty notices, and precisely none has been issued against people for throwing fireworks in the street, mainly because those people are under the age of 18 and fixed penalty notices cannot be given to people under that age.
		As we have heard from many constituencies, it is the way in which fireworks are used by hooligans in communities and their availability throughout the year that cause the problems experienced by the public.
		Recently, a constituent wrote to me to say that she had had to have her dog put down because it had bitten her child after it was distressed by a firework display.
	www.angelfire.com /co3/NCFS/parl/2003part2.html (12593 words)

	East Ham (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		East Ham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Newham.
		East Ham is generally considered a safe Labour seat; Labour's Ron Leighton was MP for the old Newham North East from 1979 until his death in 1994, Stephen Timms has represented the seat since.
		The constituency has the largest proportion of non-white people in the UK; there is a significant Asian population, many of whom are Muslims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Ham_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (181 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He also caused consternation by suggesting that the football teams of the four constituent parts of the UK be merged into one so that they could compete in the Olympic Games.
		A vegetarian, Tony Banks was one of Parliament's staunchest supporters of animal rights, often speaking out against fox hunting and vivisection, and he was a vice-president of the League Against Cruel Sports.
		Though he was MP for West Ham, he was an ardent supporter of Chelsea F.C. and attended games with Conservative Party politician David Mellor, who, despite being a political opponent, was a close friend.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Tony_Banks,_Baron_Stratford (1566 words)

	List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in parliament as at the 2005 general election.
		Constituencies were long based on boroughs and traditional counties, but are now unique divisions of administrative counties, consisting of several wards.
		Most of the current constituency boundaries were last reviewed in the early 1990s, and are therefore based on administrative boundaries prior to the last series of local government boundary changes.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/List_of_Parliamentary_constituencies_in_the_United_Kingdom (784 words)

	Cities Of London And Westminster (UK Parliament Constituency) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cities of London and Westminster is a constituency covering the area comprising the City of London and southern portion of the City of Westminster in Central London.
		It is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency covers the entire City of London and most of the City of Westminster lying South of the Marylebone Road and the Westway.
	www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Cities_of_London_and_Westminster_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (415 words)

	Armies of Liberation » Blog Archive » Gerrymandering, Uneven electoral districts
		The local constituencies usually perform the dual purpose of electing representatives to the local government councils (there are 332 local government councils – one for each administrative division) and serving as voting centers for casting and counting ballots.
		As the Yemeni constitution requires the “population” of constituencies to be equal (and not, for example, the number of voters or registered voters), census data and maps of the census enumeration areas will have to be included in the electronic delimitation database.
		It appears, however, that the number of constituencies allocated to administrative divisions is substantially less than the minimum requirement of 18 local constituencies in many instances: if all 332 administrative divisions had been assigned even the minimum number of constituencies (18), there would have to be at least 5,976 local constituencies created.
	armiesofliberation.com /archives/2006/08/30/gerrymandering-uneven-electoral-districts (4993 words)

	East Ham: Parliamentary representation \| British History Online
		Citation: 'East Ham: Parliamentary representation', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp.
		Under the Representation of the People Act (1918) East Ham (previously in the Romford division) became a parliamentary borough with two divisions.
		East Ham (North) was, until 1945, a marginal constituency.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=42744 (277 words)

	Stephen Timms MP - Citizenship and Democracy
		One of the main ways in which I represent the people of East Ham and try to help them with their concerns, is by holding surgeries.
		I was elected as Labour MP for Newham North East in a by-election on 9 June 1994, and was re-elected to the new constituency of East Ham in May 1997 with a majority of 19,358.
		You as the young people of East Ham, are the future of this constituency and this country and it is really important that you do use your voice so that Britain becomes a better place, reflecting the diversity of our society.
	www.stephentimmsmp.org.uk /citizenship.html (1202 words)

	Orpington (UK Parliament constituency) - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Orpington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency is located in the London Borough of Bromley, forming the southeastern limits of Greater London and including the urban areas of Orpington, St Mary Cray, most of St Paul's Cray, Farnborough, and Chelsfield and extending through the countryside to Biggin Hill.
		The seats of Dartford and Chislehurst had both seen their electorate grow enormously since the last review and as an interim measure were divided into four, creating the additional seats of Bexley and Orpington.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Orpington_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (413 words)

	List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament, as at the 2005 general election.
		Constituency boundaries are subject to regular review by an independent Boundary Commission, usually once every 10 to 15 years, to keep the electorate of each constituency as close to the national average as is reasonably possible.
		Today, constituencies in England are mostly subdivisions of local authorities, with each constituency being comprised of a number of whole wards.
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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bethnal Green is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
		During the 1960s, famous gangsters, the Kray twins, lived in Bethnal Green, but by the beginning of the twenty-first century, Bethnal Green, in common with much of the old East End, began to undergo a process of gentrification.
		It provides an excellent insight on post war East London, showing bomb sites and slums before most were swept away during the redevelopment in the 1960s and later.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Bethnal_Green (1245 words)

	Islington North - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Islington North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The core of the constituency was the area north of Seven Sisters Road and Camden Road.
		Despite this, he failed to regain the Labour Party nomination for the 1983 General Election and he was defeated by the new Labour candidate, Jeremy Corbyn, coming fourth with 11.1% of the vote.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Islington_North_(constituency) (371 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 24 Mar 2005 (pt 26)
		A baffle has been erected between the houses of some of my constituents and the new channel tunnel rail link, but, between the baffle and the houses is a smaller railway line used by c2c on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, which goes through my constituency and ends in that of the hon.
		In my constituency, there are one or two examples of areas that badly need such schemes because the traffic travels very fast and is becoming dangerous.
		I visit on average a school a week in my constituency and I find that people as young as nine and 10 are a lot more interested in politics than I probably was at their age, but that does not translate into an interest in party politics.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo050324/debtext/50324-26.htm (2818 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; October 3, 2002
		The draftsmen cannot be presumed to be unaware of the word ‘constituency’ because it was used in the Act of 1935 and also in the 1956 constitution.
		The method of delimiting the National Assembly constituencies is that the population of a province (and Islamabad and FATA) is divided by the number of seats allocated to it and the resultant figure is called the quota of the population.
		Clear and easily digestible information about laws, rules, constituencies, polling procedures, candidates’ eligibility, etc. can generate questions and thinking processes in a quest to understand why one street in a town is in one constituency and the next one in another, or how communities and groups are divided or joined by intriguing loops around constituencies.
	www.dawn.com /2002/10/03/op.htm (5364 words)

	Election Guide June 10 2004
		Failure to respond may be interpreted as a candidates unwilling to clarify his or her real position and a disregard for the concerns of Muslim constituents.
		He is sitting on a 30% Muslim constituency and yet looking at his voting and EDM history he appears to have done very little for Muslims in parliament!
		Muslims form 30% of the constituency of which nearly 22,000 are of voting age.
	www.inminds.co.uk /election-guide-2005-east-ham.html (1044 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MPs tabled a motion in Parliament yesterday condemning the 'appalling desecration' of 87 graves at a cemetery in West Ham, east London.
		Lyn Brown, MP for West Ham, called for a debate in the House of Commons about levels of anti-Semitism in the UK and paid tribute to the local Sikh, Hindu and Muslim leaders who had condemned the attacks.
		The desecration of the West Ham cemetery, revealed in The Independent yesterday, is the 117th since 1990 and is part of an upsurge in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK.
	www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/anti/viewstory.php?storyid=4383 (565 words)

	Planet Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iraq's Parliament is to hold a special session following yesterday's suicide bombing in its cafe; public service workers cannot afford to buy homes, a bank says; and hopes are fading for crewmen missing from a capsized oil rig support vessel.
		The UK sees promise in Iran's recent diplomatic contacts, Downing Street says; the number of twins born via IVF needs to be cut, a watchdog says; and the Animal Welfare Act is coming into force.
		The UK has given up a bid to claw back some of the EU rebate sacrificed in 2005; "talking" CCTV camera schemes are to be extended; and planning law is to be eased for wind turbines and solar panels on homes.
	mp.theplanetarium.org (7311 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The land adjacent to the river, from Strawberry Hill in the south, to Marble Hill Park in the north, is occupied by a mixture of luxury dwellings, formal gardens, public houses and a newly built park and leisure facility.
		In the south, in Strawberry Hill, lies St Mary's College, one of London's prominent universities (and the oldest Catholic college in the UK), historically specialising in sports studies, teacher training, religious studies and the humanities Drama studies and English literature.
		Twickenham proper begins in the vicinity of Pope's Grotto, with a large and expensive residential area of (mostly) period houses to the west, and a number of exclusive properties to the east — on or near the river.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Twickenham (1386 words)

	Keir Hardie Summary
		Hardie's election to Parliament for South West Ham in 1892 as an Independent Labour candidate won attention; publicity increased with his appearance at Westminster in a cloth cap, his maiden speech on the misery of the unemployed, and his dissent from congratulations on the birth (1894) of the future Edward VIII.
		Keir Hardie was born in Newhouse, North Lanarkshire in 1856, the illegitimate son of Mary Keir, a servant from Legbrannock, near Motherwell, Scotland.
		In Parliament he advocated a graduated income tax, free schooling, pensions, the abolition of the House of Lords and the women's right to vote.
	www.bookrags.com /Keir_Hardie (1815 words)

	Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richmond Park is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		Richmond Park constituency was created in 1997 out of the old Richmond and Barnes constituency (held until then by the Conservative Jeremy Hanley) and the northern half of the Kingston upon Thames constituency (held by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, also Conservative).
		Richmond Park constituency stretches from Barnes in the north to Kingston upon Thames in the south, and includes the whole of East Sheen, Mortlake, Kew, Richmond upon Thames, Petersham and Ham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richmond_Park_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (555 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| South East Wales \| Memorial to Labour founder Hardie
		Born in Lanarkshire, Hardie was an organiser of early trade unions in the coal mines of his native Scotland before being elected MP for West Ham in east London in 1892.
		A century on from Labour's foundation, a bronze bust of Hardie was unveiled in his former constituency by its current MP, Ann Clwyd.
		She said: "I am enormously proud both to be the MP for the constituency Keir Hardie represented and to be the current chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/wales/south_east/6201384.stm (564 words)

	Election 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the last Parliament, 13 of them were Tory seats, 7 Lib Dem, and 54 Labour.
		Brent East By-Election â“ Lib Dem Sarah Teather Lib Dem 8,158 39.1% Robert Evans Lab 7,040 33.8% Uma Fernandes Con 3,368 16.2% Noel Lynch Green 638 3.1% Brian Butterworth Soc All 361 1.7% Khidori Ibrahim PSNW 219 1.1% Winston McKenzie IND 197 0.9% Kelly Mc...
		General Election 2005 The result of the General Election in Newham constituencies is as follows: East Ham David John Bamber - Christian Peoples Alliance - 580 Ann Mary Haigh - Liberal Democrats - 4,296 Sarah Louise Macken - Conservative Party 5,196...
	www.hamhigh.co.uk /elections (1020 words)

	Central Europe Review - Letters to the editor
		Not even a five percent vote threshold for a party to hold seats in parliament is a barrier to these voting patterns and their negative impact.
		The conservative party in the UK and the Republicans in the US are, of course, "broad churches" and they have prevented the emergence of extremist parties.
		In the UK, introducing proportional representation at the national level, as is already the case in the Scottish Parliament, would of course probably and unfortunately allow nasty extremist movements such as the British National Party to gain representation in the House of Commons.
	www.ce-review.org /00/17/letter17.html (1727 words)

	MAKE YOUR POINT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Democracy is possible in the Middle East, when people realize that their ethnic and religious identity does not give them more rights than the others.
		Democracy in the Middle East is certainly possible, and the recent PA elections underline that.
		To obtain democracy in the Middle East, all economic aid and business opportunities with Middle Eastern nations must be made contingent on actions by each nation to eliminate the fear used to maintain their totalitarian governments.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=530845&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 (7384 words)

	The Electoral Commission : Election results
		Elections were held for the UK Parliament on 5 May 2005.
		The electoral system used for the UK Parliamentary general election is called 'first past the post'.
		This means that within each constituency a single vote is cast for one candidate and the candidate who wins the highest number of votes becomes the elected MP.
	www.electoralcommission.org.uk /election-data/index.cfm?epage=s (139 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Time to ban Hamas
		In the mid-70s he was a Christian-Marxist, basing his beliefs on a naive interpretation of the revolt of the Anabaptist Thomas Muentzer, of whom Engels also wrote uncomprehendingly.
		One of the few public figures in Canada to oppose the banning of these terrorist groups was a Member of Parliament called Joe Comartin, a recent unsuccessful contender for the leadership of the small New Democratic Party.
		The UK's position on this is undermined by all the years during which successive British governments allowed Sinn Fein to operate and raise funds.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2003/08/time_to_ban_ham.html (2203 words)

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