The houses of parliament

 The house of commons

  The house of lords

The parliament consists of "the house of commons" and "the house of lords" in the United Kingdom.The house of commons has more power than the house of lords and decides national policy. Because in the last century the house of lords has lost most of its powers, except to delay and debate decisions made by the house of commons.
In some news paper, we often can look the "first past the post" about the prliament. What is the means of that? when there is a general election, people vote for a person to be the MP for their constituency. the person who has most votes wins,even if they have only one vote more than the next person.
There are have 659 constituencies in the UK. In this number, the England have 529 constituencies, the Scotland have 72 constituencies, the Wales have 40constituencies,the Northern Ireland have 18 constituencies. The constituencies in different places are the different size.


RESEARCH WOMEN MPs
Q:How many are there at the moment?
After the General Election 2010, have 143 women MPs in the parliament.

Of these MPs, 49 are Conservative; 7 Liberal Democrats; 81 Labour; 1 Green Party; 1

Scottish National Party; 1 Social Democrat & Labour Party; 1 Sinn Fein; 1 Alliance

and1 Independent.
Q:How many women MPs are ministers?




Q:who was the first woman MP and when was she in parliament?
Countess Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1918.