Area Definitions

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Area definitions

In addition to the 20 regions, we also divide the country into eleven areas. Each area is made up of one or two complete Electoral Calculus regions in the following way.

AreaRegionsCounties (historic)
ScotlandEast Scotland
West Scotland
All Scotland
The NorthNorthCumbria, Northumberland, Newcastle area, Durham, Teeside
North WestLancashire
Greater Manchester
Lancashire, Merseyside
Manchester boroughs
Yorks/HumberYorkshire
Humberside
North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
South Yorkshire, Humber area, Lincolnshire
WalesWalesAll Wales
West MidlandsSevern
West Midlands
Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Hereford & Worcestershire
Birmingham, Black Country, Coventry and Solihull
East MidlandsEast MidlandsDerbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire
AngliaEast Anglia
Essex
Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire
South WestSouth West
West
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset
Bristol area, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire
LondonNorth London
South London
All London Boroughs
South EastSouth
South East
Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey
West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent

These are similar, but not identical, to current adminstrative regional definitions.



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