Salisbury is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Glen of the Conservative Party.

[n 2] From 1295 (the Model Parliament), a form of this constituency on a narrower area, the Parliamentary borough of Salisbury, returned two MPs to the House of Commons of England.

The parliamentary borough of Salisbury was abolished for the 1918 general election but the name was transferred immediately to a new county division.

According to a local tradition, the Member of Parliament for Salisbury sings the song The Vly be on the Turmut from the balcony of the White Hart Hotel in St John's Street after winning each Parliamentary election.

[5] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 1.6% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 2.5%.