• article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight. In 1890 the Isle of Wight became an administrative...
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    Newport is the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island county off the south coast of England. The town is slightly north of the centre of the island,...
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  • geographical entity distinct from the mainland, the Isle of Wight has always fought to have this identity recognised. The Isle of Wight is currently a ceremonial...
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    Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) was a constituency that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2017 until 2024 by Bob Seely...
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    Newtown is a small village in the civil parish of Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, on the Isle of Wight, England. In medieval times it was a thriving...
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  • a parliamentary borough located in Newtown on the Isle of Wight, which was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House...
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  • and from the 1832 general election its territory was included in the new county constituency of Isle of Wight. The constituency was a Parliamentary borough...
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  • Newport was a parliamentary borough located in Newport (Isle of Wight), which was abolished in for the 1885 general election. It was occasionally referred...
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    The Representation of the People Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 102), known as the Reform Act 1867 or the Second Reform Act, is an act of the British Parliament...
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  • The Parliamentary representation by historic counties is summarised in this article, with links to the articles about the representation of each of the...
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    informally known as unitary authorities. The first was the Isle of Wight, where the two districts were abolished and the county council took over their functions...
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    Warrosquyoake Shire (category 1634 establishments in the Colony of Virginia)
    part of the Powhatan Confederacy. The county was renamed Isle of Wight County in 1637, after an island in the English Channel. Shortly after the establishment...
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    at Newport for the convenience of voters on the Isle of Wight. Some of the Act was implicitly repealed by the Reform Act 1832. The whole Act except...
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  • source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019. The Isle of Wight is excluded throughout. The number of votes cast...
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    The Representation of the People Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 65) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the law relating to...
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    South East England (European Parliament constituency) (category Politics of South East England)
    south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire...
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    Lymington (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which...
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    one of them. It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Aldershot, Fareham, Farnham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Petersfield, Portsmouth...
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    (1970s) [Isle of Wight regionalist party] Women's Party (1917–1919) Workers Party of Scotland Working People's Party of England (1968–1986) Timeline of political...
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    Great Yarmouth (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Norfolk)
    constituencies in Norfolk Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency) "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England –...
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    proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had...
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  • Wood Green Hove Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Isle of Wight Islwyn Jarrow Keighley Kensington Kingston upon Hull North Kingston...
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    are explicitly preserved. Two constituencies for the Isle of Wight. (This was an increase from the single constituency that existed up until this point...
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  • Iar (the Western Isles of Scotland) Two seats within the boundaries of the Isle of Wight (this is an enforced division of the single Isle of Wight constituency...
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    First Protectorate Parliament (category The Protectorate)
    Bridgwater: 1 Bristol: 2 Taunton: 2 Wells: 1 Southamptonshire*: 8 Andover: 1 Isle of Wight**: 2 Portsmouth: 1 Southampton: 1 Winchester: 1 Suffolk*: 10 Bury St...
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    Local Government Act 1972 (category Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England and Wales)
    Government Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 17 October 1972. col. 1680–1684. "Isle of Wight retains its county council". The Times. 18...
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  • Cornwall New Romney, Kent Newport, Cornwall Newton, Lancashire Newtown, Isle of Wight Okehampton, Devon Old Sarum, Wiltshire Orford, Suffolk Plympton Erle...
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    Westminster Parliament constituencies (on their 1983 boundaries) of Fareham, Gosport, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth North, Portsmouth South, and Winchester. Boothroyd...
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  • Emily Palmer (category Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates)
    At the 1923 United Kingdom general election, Palmer contested the Isle of Wight for the Labour Party, but took third place, with only 7.1% of the vote...
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  • also fell behind Labour in the Isle of Wight. In total, the Green vote fell in 561 constituencies, and rose in 22. In the 2019 general election, Green...
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