Milton Keynes Central (constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2024 onwards
Milton Keynes Central is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested in the 2024 general election. Since that election, it has been represented by Emily Darlington of the Labour Party.
Constituency profile
Milton Keynes Central is a constituency in the City of Milton Keynes unitary authority in Buckinghamshire. It covers the centre and east of the city of Milton Keynes, including the neighbourhoods of Shenley, Loughton, Woughton, Broughton, Walton, Woolstone, Wavendon, Middleton, Willen, Monkston, Simpson and part of Bradwell. It also includes the small, outlying town of Woburn Sands.
The area that is today Milton Keynes was a rural area of small towns and villages until the late 1960s, when it was designated as a new town and developed to accommodate overspill from London. The city is known for its modernist architecture and grid road system. This constituency hosts the headquarters of the Open University, which is primarily a distance education institution and is the United Kingdom's largest university by number of students. There is some deprivation in the city centre and in the neighbourhoods to its immediate south, however most of the city is affluent and suburban in character.
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