UK fantasy parliamentary boundaries - population-based apportionment

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Replying just to bookmark the thread. I'll try to fathom out a 15 seat Lancashire later on .

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Forgive me, my laptop has come back from hospital so most of my files have been removed/lost/damaged.

Can you link me to the ward-level population tables please?

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Oh, there's links in the OP. Never mind.

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This is VERY rough and ready but serves as a basis on which to build proper constituencies later. (Maybe with help from the forum)

1] Blackpool South (95,589). Essentially the "zombie review" seat, I think.
2] Blackpool North and Fleetwood (95,007). The zombie review seat with one or two wards shaken around here and there.
3] North Lancashire (100,266).  The existing Morecambe seat with Lancaster's city centre, hence the name change.
4] Central Lancashire (103,213, i.e. too big). Wyre, north Preston and Lancaster without its city centre.
5] Fylde (96,320). The "zombie review" seat.
6] Preston (110,138, i.e. far too big). The City of Preston without its furthest out bits
7] South Ribble (99,757). The "zombie review" seat with slight modifications
8] West Lancashire (94,797). Essentially the "zombie review" seat.
9] Chorley (107,155, i.e. far too big). The entire Borough
10] Ribble Valley (82,320). The entire borough with little bits added
11] Pendle (89,452). The entire borough.
12] Burnley (87,059). The entire borough.
13] Blackburn (107,246, i.e. far too big). The existing constituency, pre-"zombie review"
14] Rossendale and Darwen (90,987). The existing constituency, give or take a few changes.
15] Hyndburn and Haslingden (97,972). The existing constituency, give or take a few changes.

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I'd love to know where you got Preston South and Clitheroe from!!

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Aah, okay. I'd call it "Preston and Ribble Valley", then hope nobody notices

Lancashire is oddly shaped, that's true. It's best.dealt with by treating it in two halves, and not let east mix with west too often..

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YL, this is something Pete over at VoteUK has attempted. Indeed I think there's a thread about this somewhere from him over on that site.