Talk:Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)

Welsh Assembly constituencies
I guess it will be 2011 before the current review results in new boundaries effective for elections to the Welsh Assembly? Laurel Bush 16:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC).

Boundary Commission redirect needs to be disambig
Hi; I haven't written it yet, if _I_ get to it (my twenty hands are already full), but Boundary Commission (Pacific Northwest) and other Canada-US Boundary Commissions are other uses of the term; I think Boundary Commission (Maine) might be suitable at that end, not sure what to call the Great Lakes-Rockies stretch; the Pacific Northwest boundary was of a different era and different survey, and has quite an involved history separate from the others; anyway I'll see what I can do about getting such an article started, and look into what other Border Commissions have to be accounted for; Boundary Commission (Alaska Panhandle) I think also....Skookum1 (talk) 16:17, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ ninety:one 12:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Who gets to sit on those Commissions?
Given that the Commissions wield considerable power, who determines their membership, and how is it ensured that no partisan influence happens in the selection? -- 77.187.152.136 (talk) 15:07, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * If you go to each of the four websites, there are links to show who is a member and chair. For the Assistant Commissioners, who sit in the public meetings if any are caused, membership of a political party is forbidden doktorb wordsdeeds 16:48, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

why 6th review cancelled
Article says "In January 2013, parliament amended the legislation governing the Sixth Review with the effect that the review was cancelled. " but doesnt say what the amendments were or if they were controversial, or provide a source. - Rod57 (talk) 11:16, 9 May 2015 (UTC):

Whatever happened, the Commission also published a similar recommendation for the 2018 review, which is similarly bing ignored. https://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/2018-review/ Is it possible MPs don't fancy decimation?

What do the Commissions count as "Electorate"?
It is my understanding, that Boundary Commissions will set up a constituency with a population between 100K and 111K (+/- 5% of 64 million divided by 596). Is that true?

In the Considerations and process section, the article states that "the electorate of each constituency must be within 5% of the United Kingdom electoral quota. This number is the total mainland electorate divided by the number of mainland constituencies, which is 596. In simple terms, it is the average electorate of a mainland constituency." What people are included in that electorate?

For example, the United States Census uses "actual counts of persons dwelling in U.S. residential structures. They include citizens, non-citizen legal residents, non-citizen long-term visitors and undocumented immigrants." Thus, in the first place, the Census counts all children and people not entitled to vote. Do the UK Boundary Commissions count children and other non-voters as "electorate" or just people entitled to vote? Do they base it on "usual residence" or some other measure?

On a slightly different topic, how often do they redistrict? The US performs a census every 10 years. What basis does the UK use to determine how often they rebalance?

And what about the 54 "non-mainland" constituencies? Do they use a different system? --RoyGoldsmith (talk) 14:11, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * In the UK who's counted as being part of the Electorate varies, as do the constituency boundaries, depending on the type of representative you're selecting. Age (16+, 18+), Nationality (British, EU, Commonwealth, Other), primary residency, criminal activity (Criminals / Prison populations will get the vote at some point, due to an EU ruling, but don't currently), and each election has it's own rules. 83.104.51.74 (talk) 20:14, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

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Selection of commissioners
The article talks a great deal about what the commissioners do, but not how they are chosen or what the qualifications are. (For instance, I've read somewhere that they tend to be retired judges, but I don't remember where, I don't know if it's actually true, and I have no idea if that's a formal qualification or if retired judges just happen to fit the criteria really well.) I also don't know where I would find this information presented in a clear and concise form (and don't have the time to look). Does someone know where such information can be found so we can add this information to the article? Lockesdonkey (talk) 15:16, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Parliamentary Constituencies Bill 2019-21 briefing
removed and rev deleted some edits made by just now, citing a copyvio of this page - obviously I can't see exactly what was copied, but as a work of the UK Parliament, the text on that page (and in the linked report) is available for re-use here with appropriate attribution under the Open Parliament Licence (see here). I've even made a template: OPL-attribution you can use! ninety:one  18:32, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'll be happy to hear that it is acceptable to use but I'm not following why they would include that copyright notice if it is more freely licensed. Sometimes, the original publication clearly states an acceptable license, then the material gets copied over to another page which is a more restrictive license. If that's what happened, or if there is another explanation that makes it clear that the material is appropriately licensed, I'm fine with anyone regarding my removal. S Philbrick  (Talk)  18:47, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I do appreciate it's unclear at the moment. The OPL applies to pretty much everything the staff of the House produce in the course of their duties, no matter what the footer on commonslibrary.parliament.uk says (this is a sub-site of parliament.uk with a separate evolution to the main website), so I have just sent an email to the appropriate team (I happen to work there!) to ask them to fix this. The actual PDF report the webpage summarises has the licence stated correctly at the very end as well. ninety:one  19:19, 13 November 2020 (UTC)