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List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1983–1997)

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Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ6601504 ↗
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Constituencies in 1974–1983 | 1983 MPs | 1987 MPs | 1992 MPs | Constituencies in 1997–2001

This is a list of all constituencies that were in existence in the 1983 and 1987 General Elections. Apart from one seat (Milton Keynes, which was split into Milton Keynes South West and Milton Keynes North East) the same seats were used in the 1992 General Election.

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Note: All regions used are those in force when the constituencies were created.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1983, 1987, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, United and Kingdom can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6601504. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1983, 1987 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1983–1997)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.