The Boundary Commission has just published more than 40,000 responses to the proposed changes to English parliamentary boundaries. Judging from the objections from MPs alone, there are a lot of angry people out there. Help us find the key battles going on in your area.
There’s already a fair amount of interest in the boundary review on Twitter, though the search facility leaves something to be desired for some commentators:
The Boundary Commission seems to have published submissions on new boundaries in most user-unfriendly way possible. As expected.
— Political Animal (@politic_animal) March 6, 2012
Boundary Commission has no location search. If you want 1 London seat, yo u have to manually trawl through EVERY response for London. #fail
— Peter Graham (@peter_graham) March 6, 2012
Our data team found similar formatting problems trying to map the new boundaries when they first came out. They managed a crude estimate of what effect the changes would have in this map here.
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