Current Review
The Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland started its 6th review of Westminster parliamentary constituency boundaries on 4 March 2011. The review has to be completed before 1st October 2013.
The review follows the enactment of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 which provided for a 5-year cycle of reviews and introduced new rules and procedures to be followed by the Commission in the delineation of parliamentary constituency boundaries and a new method of allocating constituencies to the 4 regions of the United Kingdom.
For the current review, the number of constituencies in Northern Ireland will reduce from 18 to 16. This will mean redrawing the existing constituency boundaries.
The Commission announced the start of the review in a press release on 4 March 2011. You can access a copy of the Press Release (PDF 420 KB), Frequently asked Questions and a Guide to the review (PDF 105 KB), which includes details of the review process and the legislation governing it. You can also find out about the Northern Ireland electorate data used and the calculation of the United Kingdom electoral quota. A leaflet (PDF 160 KB) explaining the process is also available.
The first step in the process was the publication of the Commission’s provisional proposals (PDF 280 KB) for the new constituencies in September 2011 followed by a 12 week period of public consultation which ended on 2 December 2012.
Copies of the submissions we received and the transcripts of the public hearings are available on our Submissions received and Transcripts of public hearings page
Now we want your views on the submissions we have received.
You have four weeks to make a submission from 31 January 2012 to 27 February 2012.
Go to Have your say for details on how to make a response to the submissions we have received.
