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Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020
Summary
This Act reformed how UK parliamentary constituency boundaries are decided. It changed the rules for redrawing voting areas to make them more equal in size and gave the independent Electoral Commission more responsibility for this process, rather than leaving it to separate bodies in each nation.
A vote to support means
- —Supporting this Act means backing changes to how UK parliamentary constituencies (voting areas) are drawn up. Supporters believe it makes the system fairer by ensuring each MP represents roughly the same number of voters, and updates boundaries that haven't changed in many years.
A vote to oppose means
- —Critics worry the boundary changes could disadvantage certain communities or political parties. Some are concerned about the speed of changes, disruption to local identities, or that it gives too much power to an independent body to redraw constituencies without enough local input.
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Bill Passage
Commons
- 1st reading19 May 2020
- 2nd reading2 Jun 2020
- Committee stage18 Jun 2020
- Report stage14 Jul 2020
- 3rd reading14 Jul 2020
Lords
- 1st reading15 Jul 2020
- 2nd reading27 Jul 2020
- Committee stage8 Sept 2020
- Report stage8 Oct 2020
- 3rd reading15 Oct 2020
Royal Assent14 Dec 2020
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