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Parliamentary borough

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'''Parliamentary boroughs''' are boroughs that are entitled to representation in a Parliament. The term came into use in the 19th century in the United Kingdom, when certain boroughs were disenfranchised, becoming merely municipal boroughs. The two sets of boroughs were detached further by being allowed to have different boundaries. Originally many parliamentary boroughs were multi-member constituencies, but the Reform Acts eventually divided them all into single-member divisions. Divisions of parliamentary boroughs eventually became known as borough constituency borough constituencies. The last few seats to be represented by 2 members, were *County Antrim (UK Parliament constituency) County Antrim *Blackburn (UK Parliament constituency) Blackburn *Bolton (UK Parliament constituency) Bolton *Brighton (UK Parliament constituency) Brighton *Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency) Cambridge University *City of London (UK Parliament constituency) City of London *Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency) Combined English Universities *Derby (UK Parliament constituency) Derby *Down (UK Parliament constituency) Down *Dundee (UK Parliament constituency) Dundee *Fermanagh and Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone *Norwich (UK Parliament constituency) Norwich *Oldham (UK Parliament constituency) Oldham *Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford University *Preston (UK Parliament constituency) Preston *Southampton (UK Parliament constituency) Southampton *Stockport (UK Parliament constituency) Stockport *Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency) Sunderland These seats were split for the United Kingdom general election, 1950 1950 general election.

See also
* United Kingdom constituencies Category:Politics of the United Kingdom Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies (historic) * {{UK-poli-stub}}

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