Petition Align all Parliamentary Constituencies with Local Government boundaries.

Benefits:

Reducing the number of MPs from the current 600 planned to approximately 400, thereby reducing cost to the taxpayer.

Creates a direct link between local and national representation.

Constituency Office funding directly related to the size of the Local Authority's Electoral Roll.

More details

The current system is based on the somewhat outdated idea that each constituency contains roughly the same number of voters, supposedly creating an equality of representation.

Given that MPs only have one vote the size of their constituency is immaterial.

As we elect MPs to represent us in Parliament it is the relationship between a local MP and their constituents that is far more important than the size of the constituency.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

17 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 17 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
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