Last chance to have your say on plans to make Warwick's constituency smaller

By James Smith 11th Nov 2022

The proposed constituency changes could see 3,500 people moved from Warwick's electorate (image via Warwick Town Council)
The proposed constituency changes could see 3,500 people moved from Warwick's electorate (image via Warwick Town Council)

Warwick residents have until Monday, December 5 to have their say on changes to local parliamentary boundaries.

Plans to alter the boundaries were first revealed in June 2021, with a second public consultation held earlier this year.

Now the Boundary Commission for England is asking for feedback on the final proposals.

Changes to Warwick and Leamington have not been altered since the last consultation.

If approved new boundaries would see Kenilworth and Southam completely surround Warwick and Leamington.

While the latter would take Old Milverton and Blackdown in the opposite direction, its electorate would shrink from 76,109 to 72,784.

The current Kenilworth and Southam Constituency in blue (left), and the proposed changes in red (Image via Boundary Commission)

MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright has already welcomed the 'minimum disruption' presented by the government's proposals.

"These proposals from the Boundary Commission reflect an intention to make constituencies across the UK roughly the same size, which is an objective I support," he said last year.

"Some change to the Kenilworth and Southam constituency was inevitable to achieve that and it seems to me the Boundary Commission proposals in Warwickshire achieve this objective with minimal disruption, though I appreciate that this will be a confusing change for some."

But Budbrooke councillors said they would rather remain under Labour MP Matt Western in Warwick and Leamington, rather than be transferred to Mr Wright's Tory constituency.

     

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