Constituency Boundaries Quotes

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

This new [redistricting] plan basically does away with the need for elections.

I'm very lucky in my constituency. I have very grown up sensible members who don't agree with me, but we never have a quarrel. I absolutely respect their views.

I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.

As the MP for Islington South and Finsbury, I have the privilege of representing one of the most diverse constituencies in the U.K.

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.