Sentences with phrase «constituency electoral boundaries»

Not exact matches

The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.

The current government has bigger problems to address than electoral reform, so the constituency boundaries will soon be unchanged for 20 years.

For Westminster election purposes, however, there are no electoral regions, and constituency boundary changes became effective for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Many constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election and this seat changed quite significantly which made the seat less of a Labour Party safe seat based on council results for electoral wards.

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for General Election 2010 since which it has electoral wards, with no alterations in that review:

The biggest re-organisation of the electoral map for a generation by the Boundary Commission will see 50 constituencies abolished and the vast majority reconfigured.

With further seat reductions possible if further member states join the European Union, there may be a need to consider whether the rules shaping the redrawing of European election boundaries needs to be revised (to possibly allow for larger constituencies — even a national constituency) or to also consider whether there may be scope for using an alternative set of electoral rules (e.g. a List system) in the specific case of European elections, especially if the option of having one single constituency for the entire State was to be pursued at a later date.