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Originally Posted by punky
That's the point. People that live together share the same backgrounds and same concerns do vote for the same people. When the majority of people agree on something it makes the seat safe.
If you draw a big circle around south Manchester including Longsight, Fallowfield and Moss Side to the north and then Prestbury and Wilmslow to the south, who is going to win? The inner cities will always outnumber the suburbs and the countryside.
Or in the south, should Tower Hamlets and Chigwell really be run by the same MP?[COLOR="Silver"]
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But the boundaries are arbitrary, and they continue to be redrawn. It's not about any demographics of an area being met. We end up with cases like Oxford which, as a whole, voted Liberal Democrat but the boundaries are drawn in such a way that their vote was spread across the three constituencies and they won not a single seat. Constant gerrymandering by the leading parties is not democratic.