The Boundary Commission fails Warwickshire

In the last general election almost 300,000 people voted in Warwickshire. Of these

131,303 voted for a conservative candidate (46%)

79,428 voted for a labour candidate (28%)

58,837 voted for a liberal democrat candidate (21%)

7,375 voted for a BNP candidate (3%)

4,392 voted for a UKIP candidate (2%)

2,239 voted for a green candidate (1%)

1,591 voted for an independent candidate

884 voted for an English democrat candidate

Less than half the voters chose a conservative candidate and yet all six MPs in Warwickshire ended up conservative. [Had the same votes been cast under STV as in Ireland and Scotland (local elections) the result would have been three conservative, two labour and one liberal democrat MPs.]

Therefore the work the boundary commission does moving constituency boundaries about does not produce a result which is more representative of the way Warwickshire votes.