• The chairman of his home constituency's Conservative Association Barry Tanswell said he was "extremely shocked" by the announcement.

    BBC: Mixed reaction to Woodward defection

  • "With this deal, the responsible people are partly included in those countries and not only the taxpayers in other countries, " she said at a party meeting in her home constituency.

    BBC: Cyprus bailout: Parliament postpones debate

  • In his tie with Ahmed, Walters has a 35% stake in the partnership's power plants, and he holds 100% of a 50-megawatt rental plant in Naudero, Bhutto's home constituency in central Pakistan.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The politician, with a Home Counties constituency and a 'county lady' dress sense, has revealed that she has received invitations that were intended for a namesake - Teresa May, a 'glamour model' and dancer.

    BBC: The other side of Theresa May

  • Mr Wiggin said he had intended to claim for interest on the mortgage on his London home, but made a mistake in putting his constituency home on the internal form.

    BBC: 'Duck island' claim MP to retire

  • In all my life as an MP I have had a main home in the constituency and a flat in London.

    BBC: Statement in full: David Maclean

  • Under parliamentary rules Mr McNulty can claim an allowance for a second home in his constituency even though it is only 11 miles from Westminster.

    BBC: McNulty defends expenses claims

  • And Tory MP Bill Wiggin blamed the Commons Fees Office for not correcting his repeated "mistake" when he claimed for a mortgage on his constituency home rather than his London second home.

    BBC: Police action urged over expenses

  • Ms Kirkbride later said she would quit Parliament after facing criticism over claims she re-mortgaged her second home in her constituency, in which her brother lived rent free, to build an extra bedroom.

    BBC: Tory MPs pay back ?125,000 more

  • It found that Mr Laws had not only broken the rules by claiming rent paid to a landlord who was also his partner, but had also overpaid for the accommodation, wrongly designated his constituency home as his main residence and made unwarranted claims for phone bills and building work.

    ECONOMIST: More Liberal Democrat woe

  • Meanwhile, two DUP politicians have launched a petition to save a care home in their own constituency from closure.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, whose Eastleigh constituency is one of those where a referendum will be held, challenged campaigners to put the wider question of whether the UK should be in the EU to the vote.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • The Telegraph revelations include Communities Secretary Hazel Blears claiming three different properties within a year were her "second home" - the first in her Salford constituency, the second two in London.

    BBC: Ministers defend expenses claims

  • He argued that he could have claimed a lot more money by either designating his larger constituency residence in Somerset as his second home or been open about his relationship and claimed for other allowances and partner benefits - which he did not.

    BBC: David Laws deserved second chance, David Cameron says

  • On one side, Gerald Kaufman, a former Labour spokesman on home affairs, has long argued that only those resident in their constituency should be allowed to vote.

    ECONOMIST: British nationals abroad

  • The conservative Malay constituency is well represented by nationalist politicians within UMNO, including Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Najib on a Knife Edge

  • Howard, a Vermonter whose father was a home builder, says the NAHB, in all, speaks for a constituency of 8 million to 10 million people.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As an MSP representing a constituency well away from Edinburgh, I have been away from home at least four working days each week for more than nine years.

    BBC: Nicol Stephen resignation in full

  • "Whoever was responsible for the arson attack outside Willie Frazer's home last night was not representative of the vast majority of people in this constituency, " Mr Murphy said.

    BBC: Willie Frazer standing at the scene of the arson attack

  • At business questions on 3 February 2011, Ben Wallace, MP for Wyre and Preston North, said the change would allow MPs that live further afield than the Home Counties, in the north, Scotland and Shropshire, to get back to their constituency before midnight.

    BBC: MP calls for earlier Commons sitting hours

  • But they also realize that they have a liberal constituency - and I'm talking of the Congressional Black Caucus here - back home that want an immediate withdrawal.

    NPR: Black Caucus Mulls Iraq Troop Withdrawal

  • She designated the Southampton property as her second home, allowing her to claim the money, even though it was 100 miles from her constituency and two hours away from Parliament.

    BBC: Moran's future as MP under review

  • Blair's supporters in his North-East of England constituency, battling crippling levels of unemployment in a former mining area, needed the guarantee of a decent home for their families at a reasonable rent that council housing provided.

    BBC: What future for social housing?

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