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What vote lead will LAB/CON need for a majority?

What vote lead will LAB/CON need for a majority?

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Will we start to get an idea in September? On September 12th or 13th the boundary commissioners for England will produce their first proposals on how the electoral map should be re-drawn for the 2015 general election. The Scottish proposals are due out in October and the Welsh ones now look set to be published at about the same time. These will be critical documents and will allow Martin Baxter of Electoral Calculus, Anthony Wells of YouGov UKPollingReport and others…

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Will the coalition collapse over the boundary review?

Will the coalition collapse over the boundary review?

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Will October 2013 be the critical moment? At a briefing suggestion on the boundary review this lunch-time a leading Tory insider suggested that the most critical issue for the future of the coalition will be the vote on the new boundaries that is expected to take place in October 2013 (Note that the vote due then is not on the legislation which has already been agreed and enacted. Rather it on the the detailed proposals to redraw the electoral map….

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Will your MP be one of the 50 that’ll lose out?

Will your MP be one of the 50 that’ll lose out?

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Are boundaries set to be the hot topic this autumn? Early in September the Welsh boundary commissioners will kick of with what’s looks set to be the main topic for politicians, if not the voters, this autumn, the new seat boundaries. The first draft proposals for the 2015 political map of the UK will come from Cardiff to be followed in the week of September 12th by those for England. Scottish MPs are going to have to wait a bit…

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Was it Labour peers who blinked first?

Was it Labour peers who blinked first?

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Why did their vote collapse in the final division? The big news from Westminster overnight was that the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill received the royal assent at 11.45 pm after the government won the final vote in the upper house overturning previous defeats. This means that the AV referendum will take place as planned on May 5th 2011 and there there will be NO turnout threshold – the last major point of contention. This followed an intensive couple…

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