Constituency changes: The implications

England, Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland could all see their parliamentary representation reduced after the next general election, due in May 2015. With details for England and Northern Ireland's proposed constituency changes being published first, the BBC's network of regional political editors have been analysing what it will mean at local level. Details for Wales and Scotland will be published at a later date.
South West of England, political editor Martyn Oates

Under the Boundary Commission's plans, the new seat of Bideford and Bude would include Bude, Launceston and Camelford in Cornwall plus Bideford, Holsworthy and Torrington in Devon.

The Boundary Commission has chosen to cross the Cornwall/Devon border in the shallow upper reaches of the Tamar.

It clearly hopes this will be less controversial than doing so in the shadow of Brunel's famous bridge at the iconic mouth of the estuary [near Plymouth].

But is a less impressive boundary necessarily less important to people?

The border will only be breached through a tiny bottleneck in the north.

But this would still mean a great chunk of Cornwall - including the county's ancient capital with the castle of the Earls of Cornwall, Launceston - being forced into a union with towns deep into Devon.

Under the new law on constituency sizes, though, the Boundary Commission says Cornwall will inevitably have to share an MP with Devon in some way, shape or form.
South of England, Political Editor Peter Henley

In some parts of the south of England it was a breeze. Berkshire recently had a series of boundary changes so Maidenhead, Bracknell, Wokingham, Reading lined up - bang, bang, bang - with their 76,000 electorate.

Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire too got through with a tweak here and there.

But Hampshire, oh dear. And in Sussex, too - rather like the tail end of the crossword - nothing seemed to fit.

So Chris Huhne sees his Eastleigh stronghold carved four ways, though local Lib Dem support could carry him through, all other things being equal.

George Hollingbery's new seat of Meon Valley is gone - on the principle perhaps of last in, first out. There's a new seat of Hedge and Hamble and Romsey joins back up with the New Forest Waterside, leaving Caroline Nokes high and dry.

Add to that splitting Portsmouth East/West rather than North/South and you have to wonder if someone in the Boundary Commission had it in for Hampshire.

Brighton sees Transport Minister Norman Baker bussed in to the east from more comfortable Lewes, whilst on the west Hove is mixed up with the Pavilion constituency that gave the Green Party leader Caroline Lucas her historic first seat.

With the Greens now running the council they may well be extending their influence, but it will take time for people to work out the overall dynamic.

In the South West Robert Walter's North Dorset seat disappears - 43.9% of it is in with the Warminster and Shaftesbury seat, along with 46% of South West Wiltshire and a little bit of Devizes and Salisbury for good measure.

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