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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

It is good to use Manchester as an example when one talks about public inquiries. South Manchester has the highest concentration of university students in western Europe. Is not one of the anomalies that boundary commission inquiries might need to take evidence on the fact that university students will be able to register in two locations? Therefore, there will not be equal-sized constituencies. What we will have are university constituencies with a significant number of dual registrations. There could be as many as 15,000 people who are dual-registered and choose to vote in their previous constituency. The concept of equal votes in equal constituencies is thrown out of the water. Is that not the sort of thing that the Boundary Commission, even with this rotten legislation, would want to have a look at?

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Reference

517 c715 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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