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Frank Mujabi/ Ssekaja,

I note with interest your diatribe with Haji kategaga and his constant demands for yet more parliamentary constituencies in Uganda. Have a look at this Proposal for the UK's Constituency changes. The UK has a population of 65 million, compared to Uganda's 37 million. It proposes to reduce the number of constituencies  from the current 650 to only  600,  ensuring that every new constituency has roughly the same number of electors; no fewer than 71,031 and no more than 78,507.  How many MPs does the banana Republic of Uganda have at the minute?  This goes to show you Kategagaga and people of his ilk are simply interested in feathering their nests.  I think Uganda needs only about 80 MPs, 20 for each of the former colonial provinces. Most of the money currently wasted on MPs would then be transferred to local accountable administrations in some form of of federal or decentralised structure. But telling mental midgets the obvious truth is just the same as whistling in the dark. They have hunted their animal and who are you to stop them from eating it (although in the case of Kategaga, he is still battling at the bottom of the dinner table, feeding on bones and crumbs).

Bobby

2018 Review

In February 2016, we announced a review of parliamentary constituencies in England – called the 2018 review because we must complete it in September 2018.

What is the boundary review?

Parliamentary boundaries define the area where a person votes for their local MP – their parliamentary constituency. A boundary review examines these areas and makes proposals for a new set of boundaries which are fairer and more equal, while also trying to reflect geographic factors and local ties.

The Commission will also look at current constituencies and local government patterns in redrawing the map of boundaries in England, before making a recommendation to Parliament in September 2018. This involves regularly consulting the public for their views and refining proposals in a number of stages.

Why are we doing a review?

Parliament has specified that the 2018 review must reduce the number of constituencies, and therefore MPs, in the UK, to 600. It has asked us, as an independent and impartial body, to consider where the boundaries of the new constituencies should be, ensuring that every new constituency has roughly the same number of electors; no fewer than 71,031 and no more than 78,507.  

What does this mean for England?

When we launched the review in February 2016, we also announced the number of constituencies in each region. We worked this out using the same formula that the legislation uses to work out the number of constituencies allocated to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – known as the Sainte-Lague method. We felt it was important to mirror the spirit of the legislation by allocating the number of constituencies to each region in England – this also replicates the widely welcomed approach we took at the same stage in the 2013 review. The constituencies will be broken down into the following regions.

Region	Electorate	Existing constituencies	Proposed constituencies
Eastern	4,242,266	58	57
East Midlands	3,275,046	46	44
London	5,118,884	73	68
North East	1,874,396	29	25
North West	5,074,302	75	68
South East	6,067,475*	83*	81*
South West	3,930,770	55	53
West Midlands	3,989,320	59	53
Yorkshire and the Humber	3,722,035	54	50
Total	37,294,494*	532*	499*

* figures exclude one current Isle of Wight constituency and its electorate, and two proposed Isle of Wight constituencies, which are protected under the Act and removed from the calculation to allocate constituencies.

The commission is working on redrawing boundaries in each region in England to reflect the changes required by Parliament.

 

The Guide to the 2018 Review

Further details of the legislation, review process, and the policies the BCE will work to during the Review are set out in our 'Guide to the 2018 Review of Parliamentary constituencies'. Within that, we have announced our intention to publish our Initial Proposals for new constituencies on Tuesday 13 September 2016. Whilst this is our current intention we reserve the right to revise the timetable if we deem that to be necessary.

Read more in our full FAQs

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