The 2010 election was fraught with accusations of electoral biases that rewarded parties unevenly. The current electoral Boundary Review aims to remove some of this bias by proposing a maximum size for constituencies and depoliticizing the issue. Dr Robert McIlveen argues that the coalition government’s changes ot established procedures do not go far enough in altering some major underlying problems of the boundary-setting rpoces
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The coalition’s programme of constitutional reform includes a commitment to review, and equalise the...
With the the 2015 election upon us, there is much talk of safe and marginal seats, and the main part...
It is frequently canvassed by some politicians and political commentators that the current British e...
One reason why the government wants to equalise electoral constituency sizes is to correct for a per...
The government’s contentious legislation to reduce the number of MPs and introduce a new system for ...
A recent post by Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie and David Rossiter objected to an idea published in th...
The previous Coalition government attempted to redraw the boundaries of the UK’s Parliamentary const...
The UK government announced on July 16 that it had decided to end the transition period to Individua...
Many commentators initially welcomed the changes in public consultation introduced to speed up the r...
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With the conclusion of the AV referendum last month, focus now turns to one of the few certain elect...
Last week, the Boundary Commission for England presented its proposals for new constituencies based ...
Not to be cited without the authors ’ consent 1 To many observers, the result of the 2005 United Kin...
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill w...
Whether or not we end up voting under a different electoral system at the 2015 General Election, it ...
The coalition’s programme of constitutional reform includes a commitment to review, and equalise the...
With the the 2015 election upon us, there is much talk of safe and marginal seats, and the main part...
It is frequently canvassed by some politicians and political commentators that the current British e...
One reason why the government wants to equalise electoral constituency sizes is to correct for a per...
The government’s contentious legislation to reduce the number of MPs and introduce a new system for ...
A recent post by Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie and David Rossiter objected to an idea published in th...
The previous Coalition government attempted to redraw the boundaries of the UK’s Parliamentary const...
The UK government announced on July 16 that it had decided to end the transition period to Individua...
Many commentators initially welcomed the changes in public consultation introduced to speed up the r...
Simon Bastow examines some of the background and issues relating to ‘national’ seat allocations as a...
With the conclusion of the AV referendum last month, focus now turns to one of the few certain elect...
Last week, the Boundary Commission for England presented its proposals for new constituencies based ...
Not to be cited without the authors ’ consent 1 To many observers, the result of the 2005 United Kin...