Boundary Commission for Scotland publishes its initial proposals
As ever remember that (a) these proposals are draft and (b) many a person has made a fool of themselves with crude projected vote figure calculations. … Read the full post »
Parliamentary Boundary Reviews
Read my posts about the reviews of Parliamentary constituency boundaries.
The most exciting part of the Parliamentary Boundary review proposals
This is, colleagues in Scotland in particular note, an England only policy announcement… … Read the full post »
Monday: politicians and bankers learn their possible fates
A quirk of the political calendar means Monday sees both Members of Parliament (in England) and bankers learn of their possible future fate. … Read the full post »
Redrawing the Parliamentary boundaries: busting some myths
With the Boundary Commission for England set to publish its provisional proposals for England’s Parliamentary constituencies next week, expect plenty of talk about how the process will then work with the initial consultation period, the public hearings and then the post-Christmas period for further written submissions. However, on past form there is likely to be quite a lot of mistakes or misinformation about how the review process works. … Read the full post »
Boundary Commission for England publishes its explanatory booklet
The Boundary Commission for England has published its booklet explaining how it will be running the review process. … Read the full post »
The perils of projecting the impact of boundary changes from previous election results
There’s been an understandable flurry of interest in The Guardian’s reported projections of what boundary changes might mean for the parties, but there are two major caveats about the nature of such projections. … Read the full post »
Boundary Commission for England publishes more details of constituency review plans
The Boundary Commission for England has published its official note of the proceedings at last month’s consultation meeting with political parties. … Read the full post »
Boundary Commission for Scotland publishes guidance on constituency review
Despite the much better state of electoral register / postcode data matching in Scotland compared with England (or Wales), postcode data is still only getting a fairly minor role in the Scottish boundaries review. … Read the full post »
Boundary Commission for England confirms plans to use Euro regions
Newsletter number three from the Boundary Commission for England is out, and as expected it confirms the Boundary Commission’s plans to use the Euro region boundaries. … Read the full post »
How are Parliamentary boundary reviews carried out?
The Boundary Commissions: Redrawing the UK’s map of Parliamentary constituencies first came out in 1999 but got a much newer paperback edition as boundary reviews have come back into the news in recent years. … Read the full post »