Constituency has changed without knowing

Ours (in Wales) has changed. I only know because a canvasser told me. None of the people I spoke to knew.

We've been moved from an uber safe Tory seat into what was a safe Labour seat. The change affects something like 17,000 people so pretty significant.

I agree.

It has been all over the news for several years.

I knew nothing about this. I do now.

I also have a problem re the local candidate is good, but I don't want to vote for his party, because I don't want his party in government.

Ours has changed and the local Tory is wetting herself as her majority seems to have moved with it.

Hopefully a more anti Rees-Mogg feel. It would be one of the more gleeful moments of election night if he lost his seat.

These things are easy to find out about if you are an inquiring citizen.

This. We don’t need everything spoon fed to us.

I found the same when I got my postal vote. My fault as all this was announced in December and I hadn't realised the ramifications.

Doesn't make much of a difference really as the options are the same.

Fool - Boris Johnson isn't even an MP now.

I didn't realise the boundaries had actually changed, however mine has expanded rather than me moving to another.

Geographically my current one is fairly small as it is densely populated, my previous house 3 miles away is 20+ miles from one end to the other covering a range of suburbs, towns, villages and rural populations. I had a worse time there with the local councillor than the MP (in terms of representation) I lived in what was affectionately known as the forgotten lands. (My local councillors now are just rubbish)

The review is done by an independent body, by civil servants. All Parties will lose out in some areas, and gain in another. Not everything is a conspiracy - there were boundary changes during Labour administrations too.

I didn't know the boundary had changed where I live until I looked up who the candidates were for the area and saw a linked article.
It doesn't affect me, worst luck as my choice of candidates is abominable.

My issue is that no one seemed to know about it

I am also in a constituency where the boundaries have changed, and I knew about it. There was discussion on the news of boundary changes as soon as it was obvious there would be an election in 2024. It is YOUR job to keep informed and not expect to be spoon fed everything. You are still voting for a MP to represent you.

I am in a similar situation where I was under Chester City (approx 2 miles away) and now am in a new constituency where the main town is Runcorn which is approx 16 miles away. Whoever the MP for Runcorn is after the election will have enough local issues there to deal with and I assume my village will not get a look in. Things that are important to me on a local level are things like buses into Chester and local services. I have never even been into Runcorn - driven by it on my way to the airport etc but it is not somewhere that is on my radar as it is not local to me.

It may well have been one of the objections.

It very definitely was not one that was taken into account by the Boundaries Commission

No it isn't.

The boundary has been moved. You are obviously near the rest of the constituency. Constituencies aren't "this town and that town". There is a ring around a parcel of land and the boundary is adjusted to include a broadly similar number of people. You might be next to acres of farmland or broad swathes of heathland or at the bottom of a long range of mountains but all of that land is part of the constituency.

As PPs have said, some constituencies are a small part of a densely populated city and some cover miles and miles of Scottish mountains. But all land in the UK is part of a constituency. The boundaries fit tightly together like a jigsaw.

The issue here is that people expect to passively be told everything. Yes, a leaflet or a news article about this stuff would be helpful and is how things should be done, but it’s actually our own responsibility to find this information out.

We all have mobile phones, we all have access to information. When the election was called, we were all capable of looking up local candidates. ‘They didn’t tell me’ shouldn’t be the answer.

I am not sure how individual houses should be informed. People move house regularly, and given that a lot of this type of communication gets ignored as 'junk', it would be an absolute waste of public money to send letters to houses.

As everyone has said, it has been widely reported all over the news.

Boundaries also vary between parish/borough council wards and national constituencies as well. We have parts of our borough wards that are in one constituency and the other half of them is in the next one over.

You can look at all of them here:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=485715&y=206624&z=6&bnd1=CPC&bnd2=CTY+GLA&labels=on

I was aware of the consultation last year and responded to it. Our Parliamentary constituency changed, although oddly we are still part of the former constituency for local government purposes, which seems slightly mad to me. It's pretty clear it was done to improve Conservative chances, though it's not going to work this time round at least.

I saw the consultation publicised but I missed the announcement that the proposed boundaries were made official. I don’t listen to radio or watch tv news.,

Ours changed, I definitely knew about it because I commented on the commission proposals. I can't remember how I found out, but we are South West Surrey and lots of changes have occured here.

The irony is that we have moved from one disconnected constituency to another. The previous one had no import to us, and the new one even less. The have plumped completely disaparate regions with others, no connections with towns or boroughs. It is frankly bizarre. Everyone is annoyed.

The issue is that people are disinclined to vote because we are represented by persons with no interest in our area, so what's the point?

All our services come from the local town/borough/county. Our new MP is from a distant other town/borough/county. It's frustrating. And yes to a pp, we are just about surrounded by the far boundaries of four other more appropriate constituencies, we are in a nipple!