Plans are afoot to change electoral boundary lines so that each constituency is roughly the same size.
BBC News
OK so that creates a more equitable system unlike the current one where leafy areas with few residents get more representation than densely-populated urban areas. The same could be said of the USA electoral boundaries.
The proposed changes for the UK means London would gain two seats whilst the West Midlands lose two.
The West Midlands is itself a created county in 1974, when regions such as the Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield had Birmingham postcodes tacked onto it. Then there are the NUTS1 and NUTS2 regions for the National office of Statistics.
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How useful is it, constantly changing and modifying boundaries. I myself grew up and was educated in Middlesex, a county that is now amalgamated into 'Greater London'. Is it really useful to have the former Middlesex lumped in with the huge conglomerate that is Greater London? Likewise, the creation of 'Holborn & St. Pancras'. St Pancras used to be a long thin borough that took in King's Cross and Camden town. Then a name 'Camden' was invented, to include Hampstead, when there isn't even a river called 'Camden', unlike the newly created borough that was Wembley merged with Willesden, Cricklewood, Kilburn and Neasden and named 'Brent', after the river. Once, when people said they lived in 'Camden' they meant Camden Town. Now they could mean anywhere from Holborn to Belsize Park through to Hampstead, so people then have to ask the further question, which part?
Likewise, Sutton Coldfield, they don't consider themselves to be part of Birmingham but there they are, with a Birmingham postcode.
* See here for the NUTS breakdown.
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The electoral map of England is being redrawn to reflect population shifts and the government's aim that all Parliamentary constituencies contain roughly the same number of electors. Under the Boundary Commission for England's proposals, England will have 10 additional House of Commons seats overall once the changes have come into effect. Scotland loses two and Wales loses eight. |
OK so that creates a more equitable system unlike the current one where leafy areas with few residents get more representation than densely-populated urban areas. The same could be said of the USA electoral boundaries.
The proposed changes for the UK means London would gain two seats whilst the West Midlands lose two.
The West Midlands is itself a created county in 1974, when regions such as the Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield had Birmingham postcodes tacked onto it. Then there are the NUTS1 and NUTS2 regions for the National office of Statistics.
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The West Midlands is a ceremonial county, metropolitan county and combined authority area in west-central England with a 2019 estimated population of 2,928,592.[3][4] This makes it the second most populous county in England after Greater London. It was created in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 to cover parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The county is a NUTS 2* region within a wider NUTS 1* region of the same name. It covers seven metropolitan boroughs: Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall. |
How useful is it, constantly changing and modifying boundaries. I myself grew up and was educated in Middlesex, a county that is now amalgamated into 'Greater London'. Is it really useful to have the former Middlesex lumped in with the huge conglomerate that is Greater London? Likewise, the creation of 'Holborn & St. Pancras'. St Pancras used to be a long thin borough that took in King's Cross and Camden town. Then a name 'Camden' was invented, to include Hampstead, when there isn't even a river called 'Camden', unlike the newly created borough that was Wembley merged with Willesden, Cricklewood, Kilburn and Neasden and named 'Brent', after the river. Once, when people said they lived in 'Camden' they meant Camden Town. Now they could mean anywhere from Holborn to Belsize Park through to Hampstead, so people then have to ask the further question, which part?
Likewise, Sutton Coldfield, they don't consider themselves to be part of Birmingham but there they are, with a Birmingham postcode.
* See here for the NUTS breakdown.
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