The British Parliament made up of two Houses: the House of Commons and The House of Lords. House of Commons has more power than the Houses of Lords. Constituencies are a geographical area represented by Mps. Moreover, United Kingdom has 659 constituencies: 529 in England which is the most constituencies in Uk; 72 in Scotland; 40 in Wales; and 18 in Northern Ireland. They are different geographical size it depends in the density of population. In addition, general election is the time when everyone in the country chooses the government. ‘First past the post’ system is the system which people vote for a person to be MP for their Consistency (the person who gets the most of the vote even if the person has only one vote more than the other person he or she will win). After general election there is political party with the most MPs forms the government and the leader of the party becomes Prime Minister.
In the common house there are men and women MPs.In those days there are 143 female MPs and 12 women are ministers (9 MPs and 3 Peers). In 199, the first women chosen to the House of Common was Countess Constance Markievicz.
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| MPs 2010 |
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| Countess Constance Markievicz |
Reference:
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/m04.pdf
Well done. This is a good post and I like your illustrations, though some parts of your second paragraph are not completely clear.
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