Tuesday 8 February 2011

Women MPs

In the UK , there are two Houses of Parliament which are the House of Commons and the House of Lords.But,because he decides national policy, The House of Commons has more power than The house of Lords.There are 659 constituencies in the United Kingdom divided by 529 in England,72 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northen Ireland.All of them are not the same geographical size be cause it depends on their cities.After a general election, the government forms by The Political party with most MP and in this occasion, pepoles are supposed to vote for a person to be the MP for their consticuency and the person who has the most votes wins,even if they have only one vote more than the next person : that is called the "first past the post" system.
In th House of Commons,there are mens and womens mps which are candidate but we will put an interest to Women MPs.
According to this link,there is a list of  Women MPs by date of election :http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/m04b.pdf. At the moment,there are 143 women MPs.In 1919,Countess Constance Moukievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons,as she did not take her seat in protest against Britain's policy Ireland.The first woman who was elected and take the seat as a woman MPs was Viscountess Nancy from 15 November 1919 to 1945,and she was represented the Conservative Party..

1 comment:

  1. Well done. You have the essential informtaion here Stephanie. Just make sure you check through your writing for mistakes in spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.

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