The half-seat was to be joined to a chunk of the English mainland, creating a constituency divided by several miles of sea.

按照原计划，拿出的那半份席位将收归于英伦大陆三岛，那么这么一来，一整块选区就要被方圆几英里的大洋生生隔绝了。

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The vote is conducted through the "first past the post" system whereby the candidate in each constituency with the most votes wins the seat.

选举通过“首先经过票箱”的体制来进行，在每个选区赢得多数的候选人获得议员席位。

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Mr Wright argued for a constituency drawn tightly around the county's largest town, the unlovely 1960s creation of Telford, surrounded by a second seat made up of villages and market towns.

赖特先生支持在郡上最大的城镇严密地划分出一个选区，即20世纪60年代时候所创建的并不受欢迎的英国天福镇，这个小镇被多个村庄和集市城镇组成的第二选区环抱。

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But in a lecture at Aberystwyth University she will announce that she is giving up the seat to try to win a constituency seat.

BBC: Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood to fight constituency seat

Bar'wani won the Lindi Town constituency seat as a candidate for the opposition Civic United Front.

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Ms Wood, the regional AM for South Wales Central, has already stated her intention to fight a constituency seat in the 2016 assembly election.

BBC: Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood