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- Title
'Far Too Elaborate About So Little': New Parliamentary Constituencies for England.
- Authors
Johnston, Ron; Rossiter, David; Pattie, Charles
- Abstract
New Parliamentary constituency boundaries for England were implemented in 2007. It took over six years for the Boundary Commission to produce its final recommendations, and the new constituencies--which will probably first be used at a general election in 2009/2010--are based on electorate data for 2000; they will thus be seriously out-of-date by the time they are first used, and are likely still to be in place for at least one further general election (in 2013-2015?). A major cause for the extenuated process is the public consultation required under the relevant legislation. That consultation--although oriented to the general public--in effect involves little more than an invitation to the political parties to seek to influence the constitution of the new constituencies for their own electoral ends. A more streamlined system is proposed which removes that potential gerrymandering and would ensure that constituencies are not as outdated--and hence unequal in their electorates--as is currently the case.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ELECTION districts; ADMINISTRATIVE &; political divisions; ELECTION policy; GERRYMANDERING; POLITICAL parties; BRITISH politics &; government, 1997-2007; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gsm053