Sentences with phrase «reduced number of constituencies»

The reason the boundary changes helped the Tories was that they sharply reduced the number of constituencies in Labour's heartlands.

[13] The Conservatives, however, promised to keep the first - past - the - post system, but to reduce the number of constituencies by 10 %.

The postponed Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposed reducing the number of constituencies from 650 to 600.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 duly introduced the referendum on AV and also the aim of reducing the number of constituencies to 600.

I'm grateful to John Rentoul's blog for alerting me to the amendment put down by the Conservatives ahead of last Tuesday's voting reform debate that set out Tory plans to reduce the number of constituencies by 10 %.

The Boundaries Commission will formally present its proposals for reducing the number of constituencies from 650 to 600 tomorrow.

parliament has set us strict rules on reducing the number of constituencies and bringing greater equality of electorate size between the new constituencies — these new rules mean that there is likely to be a large degree of change across the country.

The Boundary Commission last week outlined its proposals for reducing the number of constituencies in the UK from 650 to 600.

We would probably have to reduce the number of constituencies by at least a third, and it would be the Tories deciding what the ground rules would be for those new boundaries.

Not exact matches

This is, in part, tied to the difficulties associated with working in regional constituencies, now that the number of weeks for such work in the monthly parliamentary cycle has been reduced from two to one — a particular challenge for deputies representing citizens in federal subjects far from Moscow.

Even in 2004, when the number of seats in Scotland was reduced, this was to reflect a political decision that the new seats, unlike the old ones, should have more - or-less the same number of electors as English constituencies.

If, in addition to all the current costs involved in trying to seek selection, people need to have a home in the constituency then it reduces the number of people who can afford to put themselves forward.

The Acts were intended to reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600, change the way the UK is divided into parliamentary constituencies, introduce a referendum on changing the system used to elect MPs and take the power to dissolve Parliament away from the monarch.

Labour appears to have been thrown into turmoil by the announcement, which mixed policies they campaigned on at the election with a more radical attempt to reduce the number of MPs in the Commons, equalise constituency sizes, get rules on «no confidence» motions on the statute book and introduce an ability for parliament to dissolve parliament.

The boundary changes are somewhat unhelpful for the Liberal Democrats, slightly reducing the still substantial numbers of students in the constituency, but it remains a tough call for the Conservatives.

There may also be difficulties ahead over electoral reform, with the Tories insisting that the number of MPs is reduced and the size of constituencies equalised — a move that could give the party an advantage at election time.

The total number of seats will be reduced from 650 to 600 and the new boundaries will be drawn so as to equalise the number of registered voters in each constituency within narrow margins.

After the last election, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposed changing some constituency boundaries and reducing the number of MPs.

The constituency seats won by each coalition would not reduce the number of proportional seats they received.

Jeremy Corbyn's constituency is to be axed as part of moves to reduce the number of MPs, it has been revealed.

Yesterday the former boundary commissioner for England described how difficult it would be to revise constituencies and reduce their number to 600, all of almost equal size.

This can lead to an odd situation in which increasing the total number of seats available reduces the representation of an individual constituency, even if its population stays the same (see «Proportional paradox»).