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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885)

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Mapping the changing evolution of the UK's Parliamentary Constituencies parlconst.org

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jan 9

I am pleased to announce that the website has been updated with all the remaining constituency groups. So, the current phase of the parlconst project is now complete, subject to any corrections (which I expect) until the next boundary reviews are complete (due by 2033).
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UK Parliamentary Constituencies

This website provides information on the changing composition of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom since 1885. Have you ever wanted to know at a glance: How constituencies created at each boundary review have been related to their predecessors? The changing picture of General

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · 5d

No taxation without representation. Children (of any age) are liable for income tax, if they happen to earn enough.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · 8d

I'll be there!

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Aug 20

The reduced tolerance for deviation from quota for the 2024 constituencies produced so many with just a random bit stuck on from a neighbouring district. Waveney Valley is a real hotchpotch - created from five previous constituencies, three districts and two counties.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Aug 19

10 factorial (10! = 10x9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1) is the exact number of seconds in six weeks.

Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19

Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Aug 10

Croydon West (1950-55) had been wrongly labelled as Croydon South on the constituency map for Southern England. This has now been corrected.
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UK Parliamentary Constituencies - 1950

These maps have been created by the author of this website working backwards in time from the current boundaries. The data for 2010 and 2024 boundaries is sourced from Ordnance Survey Open Data and p...

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Aug 9

Bessie Braddock's statue at Liverpool Lime Street station. What you can't see from this picture is that she appears to be in conversation with Ken Dodd.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jul 23

Yes - sure. I'll send you a DM, in case that is needed to enable me to receive.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jul 22

Been doing some tidying. Very pleased that I now have my collection of Boundary Commission reports arranged in chronological order.
From the 1868 report for England & Wales through to the Fifth Periodical Report for Northern Ireland (2008), as well as some interim & local government reviews.

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EuropeExplored @europeexplored.bsky.social · Jul 8

My guess was correct - the Bayeux Tapestry will be displayed in the British Museum next year.
I very much doubt that if I go and see it there that I will be the only visitor, as I was in Bayeux in 2021 in the brief period that year when travel to France was allowed.

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EuropeExplored @europeexplored.bsky.social · Jul 7

No inside knowledge, but ...
President Macron arrives in the UK tomorrow for a 3-day state visit.
There appears to be a gap in his itinerary on Wednesday afternoon.
Very unusually the British museum is shut for the day on Wednesday.
My guess is he will he will announce a loan of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Europe Explored – Trip 1 – From Cornwall to Normandy

“Nous avons besoin de la sagesse normande”(‘What we need is common sense’, once translated literally in the European Parliament as ‘what we need is Norman Wisdom&#8217…

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jul 4

Have just finished listening to this excellent 20 part series on the 1945 General Election and its consequences, by David Runciman. If you are interested in electoral history, I thoroughly recommend it. With some insightful contributions on the political aspects from @robertsaunders.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - Politically, Postwar - Episode guide

All episodes of Postwar

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jul 2

My first 1/6. I only ever try these when you post your score, so I suppose my overall performance is affected by the selection of those you found easier.

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 30

None of this was suggested in the many hours of on-line chat I've had with Microsoft. Thanks for wasting two weeks of my time! (In this period I had changed my email address with the 95% of companies that I could without sending a link to my old address.)
I will shut up now.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 30

I decided to make a Subject Access Request to the Microsoft EU Data Protection Officer. To do this I had to login via my Microsoft account (but not directly into Outlook). While in this account I could confirm/change various security credentials, after which amazingly I could access my emails again!

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 30

I've now contacted the consumer champions at several newspapers to see if they can intervene. I've sent emails to the press office at Microsoft UK and to the personal email address of Microsoft UK CEO, without any response.
Any suggestions on what else I can do would be welcome.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 30

14 days on I still no access to my Outlook emails. It appears that Microsoft has given up trying to help me and I fear that my access may be lost forever. I still have financial accounts and tickets for future trips I can't access.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 27

Eleven days on and I still can't access my Outlook emails. I feel that I am banging my head against a brick wall.
I have done exactly as requested with all my dealings with Mircosoft - yet nothing happens. There seems to be a complete inability to escalate to anybody who has the power to sort it.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 25

The boundary between the West and East Divisions of Southend between 1955 and 2010 was a block further to the east in the vicinity of Roots Hall (Southend United's ground) than previously shown. This has had a small effect on the size of sub-Areas 27 & 28.
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UK Parliamentary Constituencies - 15 Essex (South)

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 24

In addition to the correction made recently, the 1917 Boundary Commission recommendations were not fully implemented for Forest of Dean, Gloucester and Stroud. Also, from 1918 to 1950 the area occupied by the County Mental Asylum was an exclave of Stroud constituency wholly within Gloucester.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies - 47 Gloucestershire

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 24

Eight days on and no resolution to my lack of access to emails. Obfuscation, incorrect advice, incompetence and a number of complete untruths from Microsoft so far. Spent well over two hours on a live chat with them this morning which has resolved nothing.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 23

The easiest one to deal with was correcting that there were two sub-Area 7s in Table 24b (Southampton). The second should have been sub-Area 8 and all the subsequent ones advanced by one. The Area Map was correct. The table has now been updated.
Some more corrections will follow shortly.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies - 24 Hampshire (West)

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 23

I knew I spoke too soon - but I am really pleased that people do let me know when they spot something that isn't right on the parlconst website.
Another batch landed in my in-box this evening. ...

UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 23

Over the past few months the website has been regularly updated with corrections identified by a number of correspondents. I am pleased to say that the backlog of these has finally been cleared.
I am sure there will be more in the future and all are listed on the website's changelog.

UK Parliamentary Constituencies - Changelog

Log of changes to the parlconst.org website since 16th July 2024 - (most recent at the top). Unfortunately, the table below is currently not displaying correctly in some versions of the Firefox browse...

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 22

Catching up on some podcast listening. This episode explores whether the UN small area population estimates undercount rural areas. This data is used, although calibrated by the size of know transfers between constituencies, in the parlconst model to derive the size of historic transfers.

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Is the world’s population being miscounted?

Investigating if the global population is really 2 billion higher than previously thought

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UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social · Jun 22

I do have a number of email accounts with different providers, which I use for specific purposes. But trying to change the email you have for dealings with a company is not always easy (some insist on sending a link to the address you wish to change from). Also you don't know what you've missed.