Newport East (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Newport East (Senedd constituency).
Newport East (Welsh: Dwyrain Casnewydd) is a constituency[n 1] in the city of Newport, South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Jessica Morden of the Labour Party.[n 2]
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Newport East | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Preserved county | Gwent |
Electorate | 55,224 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Jessica Morden (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Newport and Monmouth[2] |
Overlaps | |
Senedd | Newport East, South Wales East |
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The constituency is to retain its name but its boundaries altered, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the next United Kingdom general election.[3]