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Post by andrewteale on Mar 11, 2021 21:45:07 GMT
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Post by Wisconsin on Mar 11, 2021 22:32:41 GMT
Their zipped PDFs with excessively long filenames format is a real nuisance on this one. Christ the local Tories had a field day with their submission. It must be hundreds of pages long.
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 17, 2021 17:21:06 GMT
Royal Assent has been given to the Welsh Elections (Coronavirus) Act 2021 (asc 2), an Act of Senedd Cymru to provide for measures relating to protection against coronavirus to apply to Senedd Cymru elections and local government elections. The Act comes into force today. Section 3 provides that the present Senedd will be dissolved on 29 April 2021. Section 6 of the Act allows the Llywydd, on the proposal of the First Minister, to postpone the 2021 Senedd election by up to 6 months. If this is done, section 7 gives powers for the poll to be held over multiple days. Section 9 of the Act orders the Welsh Ministers to provide guidance on how election campaigning can be undertaken within COVID restrictions in so far as they are in force at the time. This covers the 6th May elections and any by-elections up to 5th November 2021. Sections 10 and 11 relate to by-elections. Section 10 suspends the three-month deadline for Senedd by-elections where the vacancy arises before 5th August 2021; in this instance the deadline for the poll is 5th November 2021. Section 11 gives the Welsh Ministers power to postpone local by-elections which would otherwise occur between 6th May and 5th November 2021; in accordance with section 17 such orders may make retrospective provision.
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Post by Wisconsin on Mar 24, 2021 0:22:35 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 24, 2021 0:25:43 GMT
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Post by Wisconsin on Mar 24, 2021 11:14:26 GMT
Personally, I’d forgotten that the full name of the borough included Dagenham. It looks like there was three borough-wide schemes. Council, Tories and a plucky individual. And to the individual’s and the LGBCE’s credit, many of their proposals were adopted. I think at one point they politely reject a Tory MP’s proposal for a one-member ward that was 26% over quota. EDIT: Just checked. It was 29%.
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Post by kevinlarkin on Mar 24, 2021 12:21:34 GMT
I think at one point they politely reject a Tory MP’s proposal for a one-member ward that was 26% over quota. EDIT: Just checked. It was 29%. Haven't read the report but I am guessing that is Rosindell & Rush Green? The two-member Eastbrook and Rush Green will be a better prospect for the Conservatives than the current three-member Eastbrook. Thames View is a strange name for a ward that does not border the river. Creekside or Roding might be better.
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 24, 2021 14:00:15 GMT
Just had a go at a minimum change scheme for the Bolton review (consultation there has been extended). I ended up putting polling district OB (the core of Heaton) into Halliwell ward, which will definitely provoke pitchforks.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 24, 2021 14:37:01 GMT
Jenrick's response to the Liverpool review includes his strong preference for all out elections and single member wards.
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Post by ilerda on Mar 24, 2021 14:42:14 GMT
Do we have a thread for hypothetical LG ward boundaries? I'd imagine there are a few people who fancy having a crack at single-member wards for Liverpool using the 2019 PD data.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Mar 24, 2021 17:43:58 GMT
Do we have a thread for hypothetical LG ward boundaries? I'd imagine there are a few people who fancy having a crack at single-member wards for Liverpool using the 2019 PD data. I'd be more likely to try Birmingham.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 24, 2021 18:23:36 GMT
Do we have a thread for hypothetical LG ward boundaries? I'd imagine there are a few people who fancy having a crack at single-member wards for Liverpool using the 2019 PD data. I'd like to see single member wards everywhere (not least as it would make it so much easier to draw parliamentary boundaries within the current constraints). I have drawn up a single-member ward plan for St Albans which I did describe in some detail on this forum (and was of limited wider interest)
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Post by peterl on Mar 24, 2021 18:31:31 GMT
There are downsides to single member wards. If a councillor resigns/dies/is disqualified, that ward is unrepresented until a by election can be called.
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Post by evergreenadam on Mar 24, 2021 19:48:08 GMT
Jenrick's response to the Liverpool review includes his strong preference for all out elections and single member wards. What are the perceived advantages of single member wards in relation to the identified problems in Liverpool? Or is it just that they could allow smaller parties to win seats and reduce the Labour majority?
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Post by greenchristian on Mar 24, 2021 19:59:43 GMT
Jenrick's response to the Liverpool review includes his strong preference for all out elections and single member wards. What are the perceived advantages of single member wards in relation to the identified problems in Liverpool? Or is it just that they could allow smaller parties to win seats and reduce the Labour majority? Discussion on the Liverpool thread suggests that the largest party which doesn't already have seats are the Conservatives (with 4% of the citywide vote at the last local election) and that it's very unlikely that the change would enable them to win a single seat.
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Mar 24, 2021 20:35:45 GMT
When Ynys Môn council had commissioners brought in (because they couldn't stop arguing about anything) the Boundary Commission recommended multi member wards for the new council which seems to have done the trick. Looking at the electorate of Liverpool, a 90 member council each elected in single members would mean an average electorate per ward of 3,600 (in other words every current ward divided into at least three)
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Post by evergreenadam on Mar 24, 2021 20:51:28 GMT
When Ynys Môn council had commissioners brought in (because they couldn't stop arguing about anything) the Boundary Commission recommended multi member wards for the new council which seems to have done the trick. Looking at the electorate of Liverpool, a 90 member council each elected in single members would mean an average electorate per ward of 3,600 (in other words every current ward divided into at least three) But they are proposing single member wards in conjunction with a reduction in Council size.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Mar 24, 2021 21:02:31 GMT
When Ynys Môn council had commissioners brought in (because they couldn't stop arguing about anything) the Boundary Commission recommended multi member wards for the new council which seems to have done the trick. Looking at the electorate of Liverpool, a 90 member council each elected in single members would mean an average electorate per ward of 3,600 (in other words every current ward divided into at least three) But they are proposing single member wards in conjunction with a reduction in Council size. I don't know about the obsession with single-member wards, but a council size reduction is decades overdue.
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Post by ilerda on Mar 24, 2021 21:11:43 GMT
All out elections and fewer councillors. Why that requires single member wards on this occasion I’m not really sure. Better to actually reflect communities by allowing 1 and 2 member wards.
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Post by rivers10 on Mar 24, 2021 21:32:05 GMT
Jenrick's response to the Liverpool review includes his strong preference for all out elections and single member wards. What are the perceived advantages of single member wards in relation to the identified problems in Liverpool? Or is it just that they could allow smaller parties to win seats and reduce the Labour majority? I personally am in favour of single member wards but in relation to this particular issue it makes squat all difference hence why the Caller report makes absolutely no mention of it I think this was just a partisan stunt Jenrick tacked on at the end to try and cost Labour some seats though as I mentioned in the Liverpool thread I actually think it will make very little difference and might in fact have the opposite effect and net Labour an extra seat or two
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