Moving the boundaries of Hackney South

The government announced that it was seeking to reduce the number of MPs representing constituencies in the UK from 650 to 600 and as a result, the Electoral Commission yesterday published its proposals for achieving this reduction.

Whilst our ward will remain in a newly named "Hackney South" constituency, there are some changes, with Clissold, Stoke Newington Central and Dalston wards coming into our constituency. Three of the existing Hackney SOuth & Shoreditch wards will move into a new "Hackney North" constituency: Chatham (right next door to us), Kings Park and Wick wards to the east going into Diane Abbott's constituency.

Although this is a technical change which won't bring any noticable change to our ward, it's important that if you have any comments, you let the Electoral Commission know.

More information can be found here.