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Garff (Manx: Garff) is one of the six sheadings in the Isle of Man. It is on the east of the island and consists of the parishes of Lonan and Maughold, the village of Laxey and the district of Onchan. Historically, Onchan was in the sheading of Middle.
Since May 2016, Garff is also a new local authority formed by merging the three authorities of Laxey, Lonan and Maughold mentioned above, each of which have been designated as wards.
It is also a House of Keys constituency (excluding (most of) Onchan). It was originally a three-seat constituency, but this was reduced to two seats in 1893 and one seat in 1986. Until 2016 it was heavily under-represented by having only a single MHK. However in the 2016 general election it elected 2 MHKs (the constituency included the (sparsely populated) parish of Onchan, i.e. excluding the village of Onchan).