Constituency has changed without knowing

Yes can you reveal the constituency? It's not likely to be outing . It sounds very curious

It hasn't changed without anyone knowing, it has changed without people paying attention. Two different things. There was a lengthy consultation period and it was national news.

I didn't say it was to do with boundary changes.

I'm annoyed by it here. And loads of residents don't know (no such thing as a local paper anymore). I think most people in my village think they can vote again for 'that nice young man' who saw off the Tories from Dorries' constituency. But now it's been redrawn he has buggered off to contest the key Tory seat next door (to be fair the town he lives in is a town that has moved into the constituency - but I'm still in a huff.

Not heard a peep from anyone contesting this new seat.

My constituency has been made more rural really. It lost the fastest growing town.

That has nothing to do with boundary changes though. Absolutely parties parachute people into "safe" seats, but they always have. Constituencies remain local areas of about 70,000 people.

Same happened here. Funnily enough our small town has been moved from a labour voting area into an area that has always, since the down of time (or at least the modern Conservative Party) voted conservative. It’s about as safe as it’s possible to be. I’m very hacked off.

I actually feel it is a big deal and I'm rather annoyed. I have no affiliation with the area I am now being represented in. I rather ied my old constituency a traditional red wall seat.

My constituency has changed and I'm really pissed off about it as I knew my local MP well and he helped me personally on a number of issues.

I now find myself looking at a list of candidates I don't know, and my village has been tagged onto a new constituency which is in a different county to me.

I get that I am still being represented, but I'm not happy.

There is still no situation where one part of a constituency is completely separated from the rest ,with another constituency in between. Yes it could well be that Anytown was previously a constituency by itself, and the boundaries now mean that half of Anytown is now part of Anyville's constituency, along with villages and houses in between. What does not happen is that half of Anytown is carved off, stuck into a constituency 20 miles away in Beetown, with three other constituencies in between.

Anyway it's all academic. We are all in a constituency as decided by the electoral commission. Those of us in Wales or Scotland might be in different constituencies with different boundaries depending on the election. It's really no big deal.

But they help with local issues. People go to them about local issues at there surgeries. Hence why it's preferable for some to have an MP from that area living in that area not shipped in from Islington.

I would imagine that most predictions look at the potential votes at a more granular level (eg per parish) and so will calculate it based on the make up of the new constituency.

I find all this concern about local issues quite odd when MPs are voted into a Parliament that decides national issues.

This has happened to where I live. My old constituency is X City South but now it’s been incorporated into a place with the name format “Y and Z” where Y and Z is neither area that I live in. X City provides council services at my address so I consider myself a resident of X City. The argument about length of name makes sense because it would be ridiculous if they listed the areas but it’s going to take time for the new name to feel right.

Same. Our seat has gone from incredibly safe Tory to now neck and neck. We’ll be one of surprise swing votes, I imagine.

It was nothing to do with wanting to safeguard seats.

There was some political wonk conversations when the draft plans were announced about the length of consistency names and I think this thread has shed some light on that logic. People seem to think that if precisely where you live isn't named then you're not in that constituency?

I don't see what the quibble is here. Everyone knows that some constituencies are set up in such a way that they include disparate areas with very different concerns, or areas that get a lot of attention and areas that are easy to ignore, or particular areas that the MP is always seen out and about in and others that never see hide nor hair of them. Or in my case, an MP who's spent the last couple of decades banging on about a hospital that isn't even in his constituency. If the redrawing of constituency boundaries causes some people to develop new concerns about how well their specific area will be listened to, represented and catered for, why wouldn't they express those concerns?

The new MP will be your local MP. Your local issues are their local issues. They are not the MP for Runcorn, they are the MP for Runcorn And Where You Live.

Yes, of course it does because anyone who's paying attention knew about these well publicised changes ages ago.

I don't live in the UK and I knew there had been changes.

That sounds very unlikely. Impossible, in fact.

Draw us a map.

This has been in the news for about 4 years.

Considering the number of of “new” constituencies, does anyone know if this affects the accuracy of predictions on tactical voting sites ? I don’t want to waste my vote.