Here is the lead by constituency on the local votes from the 10 most marginal Conservative held seats in 2015 and Reading East / West (seats with
ward boundary changes, no local elections in 2015 or either Con or Lab not running in more than one ward have been omitted), the actual majority is in brackets:
In this first three research appointments and his PhD studies local government issues were the dominant interest, a theme which covered work on issues as diverse as the executive and scrutiny reforms; member allowances; the role (s) of local councillors; local elections; departmentalism; community appraisals; consultations;
ward boundary changes; and history and structure.
Not exact matches
However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same
boundaries last year and this year (combining district
wards to make county divisions), the UKIP
change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour
change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.
Boundary Changes: Gains Dunmurry ward and part of Derriaghy ward — uniquely in the whole of the boundary review, this leavies Derriaghy divided between two different constit
Boundary Changes: Gains Dunmurry
ward and part of Derriaghy
ward — uniquely in the whole of the
boundary review, this leavies Derriaghy divided between two different constit
boundary review, this leavies Derriaghy divided between two different constituencies.
Boundary changes: gains part of Rochester South and Horsted and part of River
ward while losing part of Chatham central to Chatham and Aylesford.
Elections to the Adur District Council were held on 8 May 1986, with minor
boundary changes taking effect, impacting the Peverel
ward.
The entire council was up for election, following
boundary changes that reduced the number of
wards by one, but altogether had added an additional two seats.
Following
boundary changes in 1994, and later reform of the business vote in the City, there was a major
boundary and electoral representation revision of the
wards in 2003, and they were reviewed again in 2010 for
change in 2013, though not to such a dramatic extent.
The entire council was up for election, following
changes to the city borders, which extended into parts of Derbyshire, and extensive
boundary changes and reorganisation of the
wards.
Boundary changes: Richmond gains the Bedale, Tanfield, Leeming and Crakehall
wards from the dismembered Vale of York seat.
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.
Labour retained control amid a
change in
ward boundaries and a reduction in the number of seats from 120 to 101.
The
changes will have no impact on the local authority that provides council services in your area, or on the
boundaries of
wards represented by your local councillors.
Since the last
boundary changes in 2003, 50 councillors have been elected from 22
wards.
Due to a reorganisation, most of the electoral
wards had
boundary changes and some were replaced, only Lanehead and Briercliffe
wards where unaffected.
Boundary changes: Almost insignificant, Hove gains a few hundred voters from the tidying up of the boundary with Brighton Pavilion to match slight changes in the ward bou
Boundary changes: Almost insignificant, Hove gains a few hundred voters from the tidying up of the
boundary with Brighton Pavilion to match slight changes in the ward bou
boundary with Brighton Pavilion to match slight
changes in the
ward boundaries.
In minor
boundary changes in place for the 2010 general election, parts of the two civil parishes, Baston, and Langtoft forming much of the Truesdale
ward, moved to neighbouring Grantham and Stamford.
These included the two new
wards created after
boundary changes and the two
wards in Llanelli town lost in by - elections in 1949.
An electoral review considers whether the
boundaries of
wards or divisions within a local authority need to be altered to take account of
changes in electorate.
Between 1999 and 2003 the Local Government
Boundary Commission for England had made
changes to the
wards of the council.
[3] The
changes included renaming Belmont
ward to Westworth, and Redcar
ward to Zetland, with 18 of the 22
wards having
boundary changes.
Boundary changes: Minor
changes to bring the constituency in line with
ward boundaries.
Boundary changes: Gains most of Carfax and Holywell
wards and a small part of St Marys, covering the centre of Oxford and the University colleges.
Following
boundary changes enacted at the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the western
boundary of the constituency
changed so that it aligned with
ward boundaries (which had
changed since the constituency
boundary changes of the 1990s).
I think Sefton Central is a possibility but the
boundary changes there hurt Labour when it lost two Crosby
wards to Bootle.
Is that because prior to the most recent local govt
boundary changes there were 2, 2 member
wards and 1, 3 member
ward that covered most of the area which now has 2, 3 member
wards?
[3][4] The
boundary changes meant that Bewdley
ward had gained an extra councillor and become Bewdley and Arley, while Blakedown and Chaddesley had been combined into one
ward.
Its an area where you would expect the Conservatives to be competitive on universal swing, but in practice its probably quite unlikely that Edinburgh Pentlands will go Conservative without major
boundary changes removing the Sighthill / Gorgie
ward from the seat.
Politics: Plymouth Moor View is the successor to Plymouth Devonport, renamed in 2010 after
boundary changes removed the Devonport council
ward and the naval base within it.
Hemmelig it looks likely that St Helier will be lost to Sutton and Cheam at the next set of
boundary changes which will help the Lib Dems there (Labour having very little base / natural support in Sutton and Cheam except in the Sutton Central
ward).
[237] Following the
boundary changes in 2016, the
wards are as follows:
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 coun
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 coun
boundary change took place for this election to provide for 19
wards, many of which are two or three - member, thus electing 41 councillors.