UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885)

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

I'll be there!

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.

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

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...

Croydon West (1950-55) had been wrongly labelled as Croydon South on the constituency map for Southern England. This has now been corrected.
www.parlconst.org/constituency-maps/england/1950

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.

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

BBC Radio 4 - Politically, Postwar - Episode guide All episodes of Postwar

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 - 15 Essex (South) Click on any chart or table to open in a new page.

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.
www.parlconst.org/new-constitu...

UK Parliamentary Constituencies - 47 Gloucestershire Click on any chart or table to open in a new page.

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.

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 - 24 Hampshire (West) Click on any chart or table to open in a new page.

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.

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 - 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...

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.

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

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.

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.

Six days on and still no access to my Outlook emails. I am stuck in a never-ending loop. Microsoft say my account is unblocked - but it fails at exactly the same point when I try to log on. I report this to Microsoft, who then just give me the same generic advice, which doesn't work.

I should have got that one sooner, having been there less than two years ago.

Four days on and I still can't access my Outlook emails. I don't think Microsoft appreciate how damaging this is to me. Their inability to resolve the problem beggars belief.

So my advice is that if you use Microsoft Outlook as your email provider - change before you are hit by a crisis. If you don't, you are very wise and don't ever consider it!
ENDS (Sorry for the rant.)
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I have spent the past three days desperately trying to change my email address with all these companies. Some will only let you change by sending a link to your old email address - which I can't access!
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