Regional legislature map thread

[mattb]

Feb 25, 2020 23:22:04 GMT European Lefty said:

East Anglia, 90 seats, FPTP

I got bored so couldn't resist having a go at this.
East Region, 90 seats, 5% tolerence (not sure what tolerence you used?)
Only 3 cross-county seats (Beds-Cambs / Essex-Cambs / Norfolk-Suffolk).
Only a handful of 3-council seats, and only a couple of orphan wards.
Inevitably a couple of compromises but in the circs, not too bad considering!
The ward sizes, especially around Basildon, Chelmsford, Southend and Colchester, are not great

Herts (17)
Watford Leavesden 49214
SW Herts 49836
Watford Oxhey 51280
Hemel Hempstead 47359
Berkhamstead & Tring 48215
Elstree 50611
St Albans N & Harpenden 48048
St Albans S & Colneys 49592
Welwyn 49009
Hatfield 48754
Hitchin 47698
Stevenage 48677
Letchworth 49608
Cheshunt 47358
Hertford 47196
Hoddesdon 48488
Stortford & Royston 47954
Beds (10)
Luton SE 51018
Luton NW 49305
Peterborough N 47774
Leagrave & Houghton 49234
Dunstable 47539
Leighton Buzzard 48816
mid-Beds 47718
Biggleswade 47639
Bedford 49511
Kempston 50519
Cambs (11)
St Ives & Ramsey 48616
Ely 47955
Peterborough S 50935
Huntingdon 51546
Wisbech & Soke of Peterborough 48269
Fenland 48083
mid-Cambs (urgh) 49326
Cambridge S 51913
Cambridge N 48128
Melbourn & Cambourne 48285
St Neots 51383
Suffolk (11)
Ipswich E 51441
Newmarket & Mildenhall 52129
Dedham 48378
Haverhill & Sudbury 48661
Bury St Edmunds 48787
mid-Suffolk 51285
Thetford 49437
Felixtowe & Woodbridge 50045
Ipswich W 48949
Lowestoft 51000
Suffolk Coastal 51676
Norfolk (12)
Gorleston & Beccles 50924
Yarmouth & Acle 47717
Norwich S 50388
Norwich N 52020
Norwich C 47426
Broadland 49000
Cromer & North Walsham 49053
Sheringham & Hunstanton 51680
Kings Lynn 49618
Dereham & Swaffham 51928
Stowrmarket 47912
Downham Market 47866
Essex (29)
Harlow 51683
Epping & Waltham Abbey 49398
Diss & Loddon 47668
Wymondham 49806
Loughton & Chigwell 49799
Brentwood 51063
Billericay & Hanningfield 51432
Grays & Tilbury 52129
Basildon S & Ockendon 52215
Corringham & Canvey 51784
Basildon C 49638
Wickford & Woodham 52005
Benfleet & Pitsea 48670
Leigh-on-Sea 50148
Rayleigh 51860
Southend C 47625
Rochford & Shoebury 49008
Chelmsford C 50378
Chelmsford Outer 49732
Maldon 51383
Witham & Halstead 51640
Braintree 49870
Dunmow & Ongar 51435
Saffron Walden 48729
Harwich & the Naze 50585
Colchester SE 50562
Colchester W 48740
Colchester N 48336
Clacton 50784

[tiberius]

London ward sizes are maddening. To avoid ward splits and keep districts contained with boroughs whenever possible, I had to have 20% deviation. Nonetheless this isn't too shabby for an all-single-member-district London Assembly, at least on first glance?
(There are 125 seats. Only constituencies crossing borough boundaries is the City of London+southern Westminster one, and the one in Southeast London, straddling the border between Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames)

[johnloony]

May 3, 2021 3:04:26 GMT tiberius said:

London ward sizes are maddening. To avoid ward splits and keep districts contained with boroughs whenever possible, I had to have 20% deviation. Nonetheless this isn't too shabby for an all-single-member-district London Assembly, at least on first glance?
(There are 125 seats. Only constituencies crossing borough boundaries is the City of London+southern Westminster one, and the one in Southeast London, straddling the border between Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames)

If you want to have 6 members for Croydon, it would be logical to have them based on the 3 constituencies (each divided into two) rather than the convoluted contrafibularities you have concocted on that map.

[tiberius]

May 3, 2021 4:48:52 GMT johnloony said:

May 3, 2021 3:04:26 GMT tiberius said:

London ward sizes are maddening. To avoid ward splits and keep districts contained with boroughs whenever possible, I had to have 20% deviation. Nonetheless this isn't too shabby for an all-single-member-district London Assembly, at least on first glance?
(There are 125 seats. Only constituencies crossing borough boundaries is the City of London+southern Westminster one, and the one in Southeast London, straddling the border between Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames)

If you want to have 6 members for Croydon, it would be logical to have them based on the 3 constituencies (each divided into two) rather than the convoluted contrafibularities you have concocted on that map.

like this?