The United Kingdom consists of two parliament houses, the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The house of commons has more authority than the House of Lords. There are 659 constituencies in the United Kingdom. There are 529 in England while there are 72 in Scotland; those constituencies have different geographical size because of the density of the population. The party which forms the government after a general election is the one which have more MPs. General elections are running by a system called “ first past the post “ which means the person who has the most votes wins even if there a small differences in the number of voters .

There are currently 144 women MPs, the first woman MPs is Viscoutes Nancy Astor, she was in the parliament in 1919 .