'Stockton West' parliamentary constituency - is this happening?

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It's meant to be.

New Tees Valley constituencies will be:

- Stockton West
- Stockton North
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East
- Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East
- Redcar
- Darlington
- Hartlepool
 
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Easterside_Red said:
Yes it's happening. Stockton South will soon have its final constituency meeting.
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From my own anecdotal experience , most south Stockton folk hate being called south Stockton anyway . So I’m not sure they’re arsed it would change

I’m happy anyway , the previous constituencies were massively biased towards Labour . **** that. Imagine having a majority with potentially only 1% extra of the vote. For all the complaining about the tories getting the seats they did despite having less than 50% of the vote, the board should overwhelmingly support the changes . But I doubt they will , because it weakens Labour
 
Boroboyyo said:
From my own anecdotal experience , most south Stockton folk hate being called south Stockton anyway . So I’m not sure they’re arsed it would change

I’m happy anyway , the previous constituencies were massively biased towards Labour . **** that. Imagine having a majority with potentially only 1% extra of the vote. For all the complaining about the tories getting the seats they did despite having less than 50% of the vote, the board should overwhelmingly support the changes . But I doubt they will , because it weakens Labour
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I know they were all Labour historically but aren’t half of them blue as things stand? I’ve lost track tbh as I don’t Iive in the Tees Valley now.
 
Boroboyyo said:
From my own anecdotal experience , most south Stockton folk hate being called south Stockton anyway . So I’m not sure they’re arsed it would change

I’m happy anyway , the previous constituencies were massively biased towards Labour . **** that. Imagine having a majority with potentially only 1% extra of the vote. For all the complaining about the tories getting the seats they did despite having less than 50% of the vote, the board should overwhelmingly support the changes . But I doubt they will , because it weakens Labour
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They’re carving up urban conurbations into rural areas to dilute the Labour vote. It means Tories need Less votes per seat, a stat that is already overwhelmingly in the Tory favour, so, no, nobody should be in favour of this.
 
The new boundaries are the final proposal by the boundaries commission.

There is no more negotiation or consultations, that is it.

It will be voted for in the next session of Parliament, and as the ruling party is in favour, it will happen, likely October this year.
 
BoroMart said:
They’re carving up urban conurbations into rural areas to dilute the Labour vote. It means Tories need Less votes per seat, a stat that is already overwhelmingly in the Tory favour, so, no, nobody should be in favour of this.
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It’s re-addressing an issue that Labour could win an outright majority with 1% more vote share than the tories with current boundaries . The tories currently need 5-6% more vote to win a majority . That isn’t right . So I don’t blame the tories for doing it.

Fptp favours tories , but most of all it favours Labour the most
 
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