Sentences with phrase «boundary commission»

Nevertheless if I was a non partisan boundary commission I would be quite happy with my 68 constituencies.

Due to boundary changes and a reduction in the number of councillors from 63 to 53 [n 2] following a public consultation by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England [5] the notional results to be used for the purposes of election planning and comparison before the election were: Conservatives - 36, Liberal Democrats - 10, Labour - 4, People Against Bureaucracy - 1, Greens - 1, Independents - 1.

Ken Clarke, Chris Huhne and Tessa Jowell are among those affected by Boundary Commission plans for England and Northern Ireland.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions will take effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

People in hi - vis jackets shuffle paper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Election officials from the EU and African Union gather to follow counting by members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi.

«Three Conservative seats abolished, one lost, and two gained in Wales Boundary Commission proposals Main Jacob Rees - Mogg enlightens Commons committee about duties imposed on watermelon skins»

I've now updated those to include Scotland as well (this is partly because the Scottish boundary Commission published later, but it also took much longer to do — the Scottish Commission are much happier to split wards between constituencies, which probably leads to constituencies that better follow communities... but it makes it trickier to work out notional figures.)

Section 5 of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act states that a commission be appointed following every second election and a minimum of eight years and maximum of ten years since the previous commission.

Three boards were inaugurated with the Vice President as Chairman of National Boundary Commission (NBC) and Border Community Development Agency (BCDA).

This week the independent Boundary Commission for England has reported its provisional recommendations for changes to the Parliamentary boundaries the constituencies for which... (Comments: 0)

Following Boundary Commission recommendations boundary change took place for this election to provide for 19 wards, many of which are two or three - member, thus electing 41 councillors.

The seat was created by the Welsh Boundary Commission for the 2010 general election, and replaced the old north Wales seat of Meirionnydd Nant Conwy.

The Scottish boundary commission don't report until next month, but for obvious reasons the Conservatives and Labour can only lose a maximum of one seat each there, meaning that on these boundaries the Conservatives would have had a majority of around 40 at the last election.

Overnight the English and Welsh boundary commissions released their initial proposals for the boundary changes — the English proposals are here, Welsh proposals are here.

Within ten years, the syrup yields reached record levels and a bilateral panel (3 US and 3 Canadians as required by the International Boundary Commission confirmed what he found.

If and when Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley introduces amendments to the timeline, the government should also change other sections in the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act that would create a more fair process of drawing electoral districts.

In April 2016, each of the four parliamentary Boundary Commissions of the United Kingdom recommenced the review process, to be implemented in 2018.

Politician describes boundary commission plan as «travesty of history and democracy» amid calls for legal and direct action

«Nigel Adams MP: Help make Labour pay for their negative, backward - looking, disingenuous campaign in Barnsley Central Main Boundary Commission confirms that seat reductions will be greater in Labour - dominated regions»

This fixation with equal constituency size upholds a vital democratic tenet of equal representation; but it also results in the confusions of the current Boundary Commission proposals.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and others are on the board of the National Boundary Commission while Gen. John Shagaya and others made the list of National Institute for Policy and Strategy Studies.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta maintained his strong lead in the presidential election count with 85 per cent of polling stations reporting.

This is the system used in the United Kingdom, where the independent boundary commissions determine the boundaries for constituencies in the House of Commons and the devolved legislatures, subject to ratification by the body in question (almost always granted without debate).

While other Boundary Commissions — in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — will run separate reviews, the four have agreed to harmonise timetabling where possible and all will be presented to parliament together.

Update: An amendment to the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 postponed the due date for the first Boundary Commission reports under the new rules until October 2017.

The President noted that in 2010, the late President of the Republic, His Excellency John Evans Atta - Mills, set up a 10 - member Ghana Boundary Commission to undertake negotiations with Cote d'Ivoire to delimit the maritime boundary.

«I just came back from Abuja yesterday where we went to visit the National boundary commission over our land dispute with Enugu and Kogi.

For services on the Congo - Zambesi Watershed Boundary Commission.

It is reporting on what it suggests is the «most detailed analysis yet» of the likely outcome of the review of constituency boundaries currently being undertaken by the various Boundary Commissions.

Boundary Commissions launch review, saying they will draw up plans by September to scrap 50 parliamentary seats across the UK

In the UK, supposedly non-partisan boundary commissions are soon to propose what could be the biggest redrawing of its electoral map since the 1920s.

King was nominated seven times as Commissioner of the International Boundary Commission between 1892 and 1908, and he thus helped establish the Canadian - American border.

The Elections and Boundaries Commission maintains a registry of voters and publishes this list for public inspection at its offices and at polling stations.

But now a «Joint Boundary Commission» that is performing the first survey of the state line between the Carolinas in more than 200 years is trying to say that my house is actually just over the borderline and sits in North Carolina.

Following the Fifth Electoral Review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, minor changes were made to several of the ward boundaries and one additional Councillor was added moving the total number of Councillors from twenty - two to twenty - three.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is a parliamentary body established by statute to conduct boundary, electoral and structural reviews of local government areas in England.

Three Conservative seats abolished, one lost, and two gained in Wales Boundary Commission proposals

We are pleased that the High Court has seen through a clear attempt to delay the independent Boundary Commission's proposals.»

Thursday Introduction — Lord Trees Questions — Developing separate drug treatment programmes for addiction and withdrawal from legally prescribed drugs, distinct from programmes for illegal drug addiction; copyright exemption for schools; reducing unemployment in Wales Debate — Implications relating to the parliamentary boundary commission's current proposals Debate — Problems faced by families in the rented housing sector Short debate — Coastal access in England

Under proposals by the Welsh Boundary Commission, three Conservative seats will be abolished, one will be lost, and two would be gained from Labour.

International Boundary Commission, United States - Alaska and Canada / U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

-- Tyler Shandro has raised some interesting questions about the interim report of Alberta's Electoral Boundaries Commission.

Ilaje communities in the Ilaje Local Government Area; and lkale in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State have raised the alarm over their alleged exclusion in the ongoing ethnographic survey of the disputed territories of Ondo / Ogun inter - state boundaries by the National Boundary Commission.

Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer Glen Resler spoke to the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices on September 24, 2015 about legislated timelines that require an Electoral Boundaries Commission be appointed to redraw the provincial electoral districts.

On Monday the court permitted lawyers for Odinga's National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition to have access to the computer servers of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in order to prove their allegations that the results were fiddled.

Kenyatta, however, has said the electoral commission should not be interfered with and warned the court against taking action on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.

If the electoral system were to change, then the Boundary Commission would surely attempt to mitigate any trend towards greater dis - proportionality in the result by redrawing the electoral map.

A Labour party spokesperson said: «As part of the Boundary Commission's consultation process, the Labour party have put forward counter-proposals that better respect local community links and ties.

Dates for the election have shifted back amidst political disagreements between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga but the March 2013 date is likely to hold fast, announced as it was by the country's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.