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 […]
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. […]
I’m back with one final GE19 post, this time on the effect of prospective new Scottish Westminster boundaries. Whether these boundaries are the ones we end up with for the next election or not, they are a reminder of the fundamentally undemocratic nature of FPTP. […]
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. […]
Yesterday was an exciting day for the nerds, as the Boundary Commission for Scotland released their final recommendations for new UK Parliament boundaries. The UK Government is aiming to reduce the total number of MPs from 650 to 600. Scotland’s […]
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