Sentences with phrase «same number of constituency»

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By contrast, the single - member constituencies we have today are a creation of the boundary commissions of 1884 that worked on the principle that all constituencies should have the same number of voters.

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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.

That is a number that was arrived at by the Boundary Commission, a strictly non-party political body whose incredibly complicated job is to create a constituency map of Britain that will respect, as far as practicable, historic geographic allegiances while at the same time ensuring - once again, as far as practicable - that the number of electors in each seat is broadly similar across the country.

The system works with the same constituency boundaries and the same number of MPs.

Party F got the same number of votes as Party E but failed to get a constituency MP elected.

He also pledged to cut the number of MPs in the Commons from 650 to 600 and to equalise the size of constituencies to ensure that people's votes carry the same weight «no matter where they live».

The total numbers of constituencies and regions (40 constituencies and five regions) remained the same.

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»).

To ensure that each vote has roughly the same weight, each constituency should have roughly the same number of voters.

That then feeds into a computer model that effectively has a number of toggles for each constituency, such as whether it is rural or urban, and attempts to identify types of seats that will experience the same electoral swing.