Parliamentary electoral boundary changes. What could it mean for the

[Frederick1]

I'm all for decreasing the number of MPs! Lords Chamber too!

[loraward]

The current boundaries favour Wales and Scotland so they need making larger which will result in fewer Scottish and Welsh MP's.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies

 

It can't be right that Isle of Wight has 110,924 people for one seat whilst Na h-Eileanan an Iar only has 21,837

[Bigthumb]

According to the Mirror if the changes had not been blocked by the liberals the results of the election would have been

 

Conservative 322 seats

Labour 204 seats

SNP 50 seats

Libdem 4 seats

 

Of course with Sinn Fein not taking their seats, if Scotland became independent that would be

 

Conservative 321 seats

All the rest 222 seats

[Berberis]

The boundary changes are decided by the boundary commission not by parliament. What the MPs would need to vote on is the reduction in MP numbers.

 

Yes the commission decides on how the changes should be undertaken but parliament votes on its enactment, otherwise the Lib Dems would not have been able to scupper it.

 

In January 2013, parliament amended the legislation governing the Sixth Review with the effect that the review was cancelled.

 

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Commissions_%28United_Kingdom%29

[Bigthumb]

Yes the commission decides on how the changes should be undertaken but parliament votes on its enactment, otherwise the Lib Dems would not have been able to scupper it.

 

In January 2013, parliament amended the legislation governing the Sixth Review with the effect that the review was cancelled.

 

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Commissions_%28United_Kingdom%29

 

The legislation to enact the boundary changes and reduce Parliament to 600 MPs was passed in the last Parliament. It was just the enactment that was abandoned. The commission is due to submit electorate numbers early next year and the process once again starts automatiacally. The changes will need to be approved by parliament and if approved will be implemented late 2018.

It seems the changes are supported by the DUP.

 

The full implication is hinted at here.

 

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/category/boundary-review

 

The election of a majority Conservative government means that the Parliamentary boundary review will presumably go ahead on the rules passed under the last government, but delayed by the Liberal Democrats (the review that was started in the last Parliament was abandoned before it was completed after the law was changed). There is no need for the government to pass any laws to implement this, it will start up automatically early next year once electorate numbers are available, though Parliament will still have to vote to implement the Boundary Commissions’ recommendations, and with a small majority that is not necessarily a given – last time round there were a couple of Tory MPs who said they were going to vote against the new boundaries, and the government doesn’t have much of a majority to begin with.

 

Anyway, a couple of people have asked me how this election would have looked had the revised boundaries proposed in the last Parliament gone through. I’ve done a rough rejig of my provisional boundary calculations using the result of this election, and had the new boundaries gone through the Conservatives would have won 322 seats, nine fewer than they did but enough to give them a healthy majority of 44 in a Commons of 600 MPs. Labour would have won 204 MPs (28 fewer), the SNP 50 seats (and would have pushed Labour out of Scotland entirely) and the Lib Dems just 4.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

It can't be right that Isle of Wight has 110,924 people for one seat...

IoW: yes. That's why it will thenceforth have two.

[Vegas1]

IoW: yes. That's why it will thenceforth have two.

 

But you suggested in post number 8 this may not be the case?

[Flanker7]

Is there a Sheffield / South Yorkshire angle to this subject?

[Vegas1]

Is there a Sheffield / South Yorkshire angle to this subject?

 

List of the proposed constituencies:

 

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/conlist_imp2013_england.html

 

As you can see, Sheffield South East, Central and Heeley remain in name although boundaries are altered.

 

"Sheffield North and Dodworth" and "Sheffield Hallam and Penistone" are created, so two shared Sheffield/Barnsley seats.

"Rotherham and Sheffield East" is also created to give a shared Sheffield/Rotherham seat

 

Sheffield North and Dodworth wards: East Ecclesfield, West Ecclesfield, Firth Park and Southey (Sheffield), Kingstone, Dodworth and Penistone East (Barnsley)

Sheffeld Hallam and Penistone wards: Crookes, Ecclesall, Fulwood, Stannington, Stocksbridge + Upper Don (Sheffield), Penistone West (Barnsley)

Rotherham and Sheffield East wards: Darnall, Shiregreen and Brightside (Sheffield), Boston Castle, Brinsworth and Catcliffe, Keppel, Rotherham East, Rotherham West (Rotherham)

 

Sheffield Heeley loses Richmond and gains Nether Edge and Dore + Totley

Sheffield Central loses Manor Castle and Nether Edge and gains Hillsborough and Burngreave

Sheffield South East loses Darnall and gains Richmond and Manor Castle

 

Im sure Mr Mothersole will be hoping the count for the shared Rotherham/Sheffield seat is in Sheffield so he can continue to receive an eyewatering amount for being Returning Officer!

Edited June 4, 2015 by Vegas1

[Jeffrey Shaw]

But you suggested in post number 8 this may not be the case?

No. All that post #8 said was that three areas are not to be equalised.