Aberdeen was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1885, when it was divided into Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... Aberdeen North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Aberdeen South is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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.
Constituencies were long based on boroughs (burghs in Scotland) and counties.
Today, constituencies in England are mostly subdivisions of administrative counties, with each constituency being comprised of a number of whole wards (for the purposes of the Boundary Commissions, unitary authorities, metropolitan boroughs and London boroughs are treated as separate administrative counties).
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