The current Boundary Review does not go far enough in improving the process for defining Westminster constituencies

Abstract

The 2010 election was fraught with accusations of electoral biases that rewarded parties unevenly. The current electoral Boundary Review aims to remove some of this bias by proposing a maximum size for constituencies and depoliticizing the issue. Dr Robert McIlveen argues that the coalition government’s changes ot established procedures do not go far enough in altering some major underlying problems of the boundary-setting rpoces