European Union House of Reprensentatives

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UK population (2011 census) including Gibraltar (which is currently represented in the European Parliament) gives a quota for 55 districts of just under 1.15 million.  England has 46.11 quotas, Scotland 4.62, Wales 2.66, Northern Ireland 1.58 and Gibraltar 0.03.

Following anything like US rules on populations is going to see lots of border crossing.  You might get something like:

UK-1: All of Northern Ireland except the parts around Belfast included in UK-2

UK-2: A cross-North Channel district: most of Greater Belfast including the old districts of North Down, Castlereagh, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus and Larne (to include both ferry ports) and part of Lisburn, plus Ayrshire and Galloway.

UK-3: A Glasgow district: Glasgow, the three Renfrewshire districts and the two Dunbartonshire ones, plus a small part of South Lanarkshire.

UK-4: The Highlands and Islands don't have enough population, so throw in Aberdeenshire, Stirling and most of Perth & Kinross.

UK-5: You know how English Boundary Commissions like to produce ugly constituencies iin their provisional recommendations which cross estuaries?  This one crosses both the Firths of Forth and Tay: Angus, Dundee, Fife, Edinburgh, suburban parts of East Lothian.

UK-6: The main Central Belt district: North and most of South Lanarkshire, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire, Kinross, West Lothian, Midlothian and a small part of Scottish Borders to make it connected.

UK-7: The cross-border district: the remaining parts of East Lothian, Scottish Borders and the Dumfries area, plus the historic county of Northumberland (i.e. including Newcastle) and most of the borough of Gateshead.  (Ugh.)

UK-8: A Labour fortress in County Durham, including the rest of Tyne & Wear, the County Durham unitary except for some rural areas around Teesdale, and the Darlington and Hartlepool unitaries.

UK-9: A largely North Riding district, including Stockton, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, a slightly expanded Teesdale, the city of York and all of North Yorkshire County Council's area except Craven, Selby and a small part of Harrogate.

Each of the West Riding's three main cities now gets a district with some surrounding areas:

UK-10: Bradford, Craven, Calderdale, most of Kirklees.

UK-11: Leeds, Wakefield, small part of Harrogate district and most of Selby.

UK-12: Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, southern Kirklees around Denby Dale, western part of Doncaster borough (Conisbrough/Mexborough area).

UK-13: Essentially, an expanded H*mb*rs*d*, adding part of Selby district and most of Doncaster, but some areas in Lincolnshire will have to go into a largely East Midlands district.

UK-14: Cumbria, plus north Lancashire southwards to Preston, also including a small part of South Ribble in the Preston urban area.

UK-15: The rest of Lancashire County Council's area, plus Wigan borough.

UK-16: A Liverpool district, adding the rest of Merseyside north of the river plus most of Halton.

UK-17: Northern Greater Manchester: Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Salford and I think one ward of Trafford.

UK-18: The main Manchester district: the city itself plus Tameside, Stockport and most of Trafford.

UK-19: The main Cheshire district: the rest of Halton plus Warrington, Cheshire West, the rest of Trafford and the northern half of Cheshire East.

UK-20: A monstrosity crossing the England-Wales border: all of North Wales plus northern Powys (Montgomeryshire plus a bit of Radnor, I think) and most of Shropshire (excluding the north-east around Newport and Market Drayton).

UK-21: The rest of Powys, then Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot and the bulk of Rhondda Cynon Taf.

UK-22: The rest of Wales, i.e. the Cardiff and Newport areas, the eastern Valleys and Monmouthshire.

UK-23: A Potteries-based district: southern Cheshire around Crewe, plus Stoke, Newcastle under Lyme, north-east Shropshire, Staffs Moorlands, South Staffs district and the Uttoxeter part of East Staffs, and Cannock Chase.

... at this point I decided I had better things to do with my life.  And I haven't really worked out most of the district splits in detail.