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    Default Name 'Londonderry' could disappear under Boundary Commission proposals for Northern Ireland

    Name 'Londonderry' could disappear under Boundary Commission proposals for Northern Ireland

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    06/09/2016

    The proposed changes to the Northern Ireland boundaries.


    The name of Northern Ireland's second city, Londonderry, could disappear under new proposals governing parliamentary constituency boundaries.

    The Boundary Commission has announced radical proposals to the formation of constituency profiles across Northern Ireland.

    If given the go-ahead it will see the number of MPs reduced from 18 to 17 under the UK wide proposals to cut the size of the House of commons from 650 to 600.

    The new constituencies were based on the 11 Northern Ireland council areas.

    Under the proposals Belfast is set to be reduced to just three constituencies from four.

    Four other constituencies are to disappear with six new constituencies created.

    They are provisionally called Dalriada, Glenshane, North Tyrone, Upper Bann and Blackwater, West Antrim and West Down.
    Meaning the name Londonderry could disappear.

    The current constituency of East Londonderry will become part of Glenshane with Foyle representing Derry city.

    The Commissions' proposals fall within the now-legal requirement that each constituency has an electorate of between 71,031 and 78,507.

    The proposals are now out for public consultation until November 28 with four public hearings planned during October in Ballymena, Omagh, Belfast and Portadown, to allow voters have their say.

    The Boundary Commission will then issue revised proposals late next year, after which there is a further eight-week consultation before the final recommendations are made to the Secretary of State in 2018.

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    Pleasant seeing the old ancient Dalriada in. Good news.

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    why tho

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    Quote Originally Posted by Etain View Post
    why tho
    Good chance to get rid of a political mess created in past.

    Seat changes UK wide with population changes happening in England(rise in population) mainly. Different demographic in Islands means reform in Parliament.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham View Post
    Good chance to get rid of a political mess created in past.

    Seat changes UK wide with population changes happening in England(rise in population) mainly. Different demographic in Islands means reform in Parliament.
    Is this about representation? IDK how it works. Closest thing I can think of is like Congressional districts.

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    It's the politician of each area of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' who we vote into Parliament in our General Election.


    Must be efficiency overall though, if we are cutting everywhere. But still more reflective of populations.

    "Under the proposals, first outlined in 2011, England will have its number of seats reduced from 533 to 501; Wales from 40 to 29; and Scotland from 59 to 53."

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    Looks like NI gains one seat.

    They could reduce the MPs to 400 never mind 600.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Etain View Post
    Is this about representation? IDK how it works. Closest thing I can think of is like Congressional districts.
    At each General Election (the equivalent of your Presidential Elections, I think) the people in each constituency vote for a party candidate and the winner becomes the MP (Member of Parliament) for that constit. The party with the most MPs elected becomes the governing party and the winning party leader becomes the Prime Minister.

    An MP is supposed to represent all his/her constituents at national government level, no matter who they voted for, but it doesn't really make sense because the MPs in Parliament nearly always vote for their party's policies. This is why a lot of people want a proportional voting system whereby the votes cast for the different parties across the country as a whole get roughly translated into the same % of party seats in Parliament.

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