Boundary Commission changes

[anonymous-user]

These are due to come in before the next General Election. Some big changes. My area disappears altogether. So outcomes may be more difficult to predict ?

https://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.g...

[irc]

Well overdue. The last time boundaries were corrected was 2010.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/boundaries2023...

[anonymous-user]

Just reading changes could benefit Tory party by around 10 seats

[theboss]

That's what happens when the boundaries are in Labour's favour (smaller constituency population on average), it needs equalising from time to time to much wailing and frothing.

[Electro1980]

Shame they couldn’t get rid of a few at the same time.

[Abbott]

This is interesting

[ralphrj]

irc said:

Well overdue. The last time boundaries were corrected was 2010.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/boundaries2023...

Overdue doesn't really cover how out of date the current boundaries are.

The 2010 general election (and all the subsequent ones) use the boundaries drawn up from Fifth Periodic review which was carried out between 2000 and 2007. The 2001 Census data wasn't available so it used the 1991 Census data.

The constituencies contested in the 2019 general election were based on 28 year old population data.

[Rivenink]

Electro1980 said:

Shame they couldn’t get rid of a few at the same time.

Shame they can't reform the system so the party who gets the most votes nationwide is the one that forms the Government.

[skeeterm5]

Rivenink said:

Shame they can't reform the system so the party who gets the most votes nationwide is the one that forms the Government.

?

That is exactly what happened at the last election, the conservatives got the most votes and formed the government.

[Murph7355]

skeeterm5 said:

Rivenink said:

Shame they can't reform the system so the party who gets the most votes nationwide is the one that forms the Government.

?

That is exactly what happened at the last election, the conservatives got the most votes and formed the government.

Not just last time. Every time.

I suspect it was a clumsy reference to needing PR of some description.

[Rivenink]

Murph7355 said:

skeeterm5 said:

Rivenink said:

Shame they can't reform the system so the party who gets the most votes nationwide is the one that forms the Government.

?

That is exactly what happened at the last election, the conservatives got the most votes and formed the government.

Not just last time. Every time.

I suspect it was a clumsy reference to needing PR of some description.

Indeed it was, brain wasn't quite engaged properly earlier

[Electro1980]

Rivenink said:

Electro1980 said:

Shame they couldn’t get rid of a few at the same time.

Shame they can't reform the system so the party who gets the most votes nationwide is the one that forms the Government.

I’d rather a system where a party has to have a majority of votes to form a government.

[Rivenink]

Electro1980 said:

I’d rather a system where a party has to have a majority of votes to form a government.

Indeed, kind of the point I was trying to make

[Teppic]

cc3 said:

Just reading changes could benefit Tory party by around 10 seats

They’re gonna need them.