Revised proposals for new Scottish Parliament constituencies no longer hand the SNP a notional 2021 majority, but demonstrate the incredible difficulty of getting seats around Glasgow and Edinburgh to make sense. […]
After two aborted reviews and two rounds of redrawing for this third review, it looks like Scotland is getting new UK Parliament Constituencies. This piece takes a quick look over these final proposals. […]
Holyrood’s boundaries are up for review for the second time. Alongside the usual drama around what has and hasn’t shifted and how much that makes local politicians seethe, the changes suggest a notional SNP majority in 2021 terms. […]
Background After months of fevered work, the Boundary Commission for Scotland have emerged with revised proposals for Scotland’s Westminster constituency boundaries. They kicked off this process in 2021, and have until the 1st of July 2023 to come up with […]
New boundaries for North Ayrshire will come into effect before May’s elections, giving Scotland both its first single and five member STV wards. But what would 2017 have looked like under these boundaries? […]
It’s third time lucky for Westminster boundary changes, as initial proposals for a review that can’t be (so easily) blocked have been published. Sweeping changes and many odd seats are a natural consequence of First Past the Post, and a reminder of its inadequacies as a voting system. […]
Boundary changes are incoming for Councils that include inhabited islands as a result of the Islands Act. Highland is in for sweeping changes, but those result more from the Electoral Reform Act. […]
Boundary changes are incoming for Councils that include inhabited islands as a result of the Islands Act. Here, we look at how Argyll & Bute and North Ayrshire may be affected. […]
Something a little different for Ballot Box Scotland today – looking not at election results past or present, but instead the process that surrounds drawing boundaries for those elections. […]
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