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Elmet is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. 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). ...
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...
The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...
Boundaries This constituency covers the area of Elmet in West Yorkshire. Elmet is an area of West Yorkshire in England. ...
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ...
Member of Parliament Colin Burgon (born April 22, 1948) is a British politician, and Labour member of Parliament for Elmet. ...
Election results The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on 5 May 2005, just over three weeks after the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April by Queen Elizabeth II, at the request of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The British National Party (BNP) is the largest political party of the far-right in the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ...
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...
Politics and history of the constituency Prior to 1983 the constituency was a part of the Barkston Ash constituency. Elmet has historically always been a marginal seat due to the demographic makeup of the region, in contrast to Barkston Ash which was traditionally Tory. 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Barkston Ash is a small village close to Selby, North Yorkshire. ...
In physics, the term renormalization refers to a variety of theoretical concepts and computational techniques revolving either around the idea of rescaling transformations, or around the process of removing infinities from the calculated quantities (see also regularization). ...
The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ...
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