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Originally Posted by Bifta
Gerrymandering at it's finest.
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The Electoral Commission is not, itself, allowed to take political considerations and voting patterns into account. However, it is allowed to listen to representations from the public and other interested bodies. And from what I heard, Labour did an extremely good job of being interested, and lobbying for favourable boundaries, which the 'apolitical' muppets at the Commission seem to have swallowed without much consideration for their likely motive. The Tories, meanwhile, seem to have been caught with their pants down and played little part in the process (which, incidentally, took place quite some years ago now).
