Wednesday, January 11, 2006Boundary changesSouth Shields just got bigger! In terms of the size of the Parliamentary Constituency, South Shields just grew with the addition of the Whitburn and Marsden ward, which will move from the Constituency of Jarrow and into South Shields. The addition of this ward, which has always returned Labour Councillors at local government elections, will help to bolster Cabinet Minister and South Shields MP David Miliband's majority, and will reduce the Labour majority in Jarrow by a tiny amount. The announcement from the Boundaries Commission has come as good news to the people of Jarrow who feared that another of their wards, Bede, would cross over the boundary, luckily the Commission recognised the strong cultural and historical links that the ward has with Jarrow. You can download the Commission's news release here. The South Shields Conservative Association's proposal to transfer the Simonside and Rekendyke ward to Jarrow, and the Cleadon and East Boldaon ward to South Shields was not warmly received by the Assistant Commissioner and the end result is that the two constituencies will hold around 65,000 electors each. |
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