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Boundary changes

July 2024

  • Illustration of changing constituencies in the UK

    What constituency am I in? New boundary map for UK general election – and how changes may affect you

    Boundary changes mean the 2024 British general election will be fought in altered seats. Enter your postcode to see a map of your constituency and how these seats would have voted in 2019

March 2024

  • Close-up of a swing in a children's play area in Birmingham Ladywood

    Boundary changes may reduce access to MPs in UK’s poorest areas, research finds

    New map based on electoral roll not actual populations, meaning some MPs will be supporting 50% more people than others

November 2022

  • A polling station at Lochbuie, Isle of Mull

    Scotland to lose two Commons seats in latest Boundary Commission proposals

    England gains 10, Northern Ireland remains unchanged at 18 and Wales loses eight

September 2021

  • The parliamentary constituency of Caerphilly in Wales will be combined with Newport in new boundary change proposals.

    Planned redrawing of Welsh seats criticised for breaking up communities

    Wales boundary change plan criticised for breaking up valley communities
    Plans to change borders of Welsh MPs’ seats criticised for breaking up valley communities

June 2021

  • A sign outside a polling station.

    Boundary tinkering won’t fix a broken electoral system

  • A sign to a polling station

    Why are UK constituencies being changed and what will the impact be?

  • Polling station

    UK electoral officials announce biggest shake-up of boundaries in decades

  • MPs in the house of commons

    Nerves in the Commons as MPs await Boundary Commission report

March 2020

  • Polling station

    MPs no longer to get automatic vote on constituency boundary plans

    Government cites Brexit workload over U-turn on reducing MP numbers from 650 to 600

September 2018

  • A voter placing a ballot paper in the ballot box.

    Politics Weekly UK
    Boundary changes, deselection threats and the Daily Mail – Politics Weekly podcast

    Pippa Crerar is joined by Rafael Behr, Dawn Foster and Jim Waterson to discuss the government’s proposals to redraw the political map of UK constituencies. Plus: as a new editor takes over at the Daily Mail, we explore just how much political power comes with the job
  • Under the plans, the number of Commons seats would be reduced from 650 to 600.

    Labour accuses Tories of constituency boundary 'power grab'

    Labour calls government plans to reduce size of Commons undemocratic
  • Conservative candidate for Haltemprice and Howden David Davis leaves a polling station in Howden, northeast England on June 8, 2017. As polling stations across Britain open on Thursday, opinion polls show the outcome of the general election could be a lot tighter than had been predicted when Prime Minister Theresa May announced the vote six weeks ago. / AFP PHOTO / Lindsey ParnabyLINDSEY PARNABY/AFP/Getty Images

    Boundary changes: seats facing major shake-up

    Six constituencies where the Boundary Commission’s changes will have a big impact

June 2018

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Labour proposals 'all-but guarantee leftwing Corbyn successor'

    Reforms briefed to unions would mean fewer MPs needed to nominate candidates

October 2017

  • Owen Jones

    First thoughts
    Labour could do more to stop the Tories rigging our democracy

    Owen Jones
  • Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott

    Ministers urged to ditch plans to cut number of MPs by 50

September 2017

  • The plan to cut the number of MPs in Westminster was intended to save £50m over five years.

    Theresa May 'to ditch plans to cut number of MPs'

    Proposals to trim seats in Commons to 600 will be dropped as Conservatives fear they will not get vote through parliament, Times reports

June 2017

  • Jeremy Corbyn, seen here at a campaign event in Blyth, north-east England, on 5 June.

    Conservatives’ fake news ads are an assault on democracy

    Letters: Rob Sykes on the Tories’ online campaign against Jeremy Corbyn; Peter Simmons on the planned boundary changes that threaten a one-party state; Janet Davies on the race North East Hampshire

December 2016

  • Kate Osamor

    Shadow minister irate over Labour plan to save Jeremy Corbyn's seat

  • Andy Beckett

    From Trump to Brexit, power has leaked from cities to the countryside

    Andy Beckett

November 2016

  • The Houses of Parliament

    Boundary changes battle has had amazing response, says Labour MP

    Pat Glass, whose bill to amend government plans is being debated in the Commons, says issue is causing significant disquiet
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