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The Borough of Wirral (Electoral Changes) Order 2003 Final recommendations on the future electoral arrangements for Wirral Report to The Electoral Commission March 2003 © Crown Copyright 2003 Applications for reproduction should be made to: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Copyright Unit. The mapping in this report is reproduced from OS mapping by The Electoral Commission with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number: GD 03114G. This report is printed on recycled paper. Report no: 325 2 Contents Page What is The Boundary Committee for England? 5 Summary 7 1 Introduction 11 2 Current electoral arrangements 13 3 Draft recommendations 17 4 Responses to consultation 19 5 Analysis and final recommendations 21 6 What happens next? 45 Appendices A Final recommendations for Wirral: 47 Detailed mapping B Guide to interpreting the first draft of the electoral change order 49 C First draft of electoral change Order 51 3 4 What is The Boundary Committee for England? The Boundary Committee for England is a committee of The Electoral Commission, an independent body set up by Parliament under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. The functions of the Local Government Commission for England were transferred to The Electoral Commission and its Boundary Committee on 1 April 2002 by the Local Government Commission for England (Transfer of Functions) Order 2001 (SI 2001 No. 3692). The Order also transferred to The Electoral Commission the functions of the Secretary of State in relation to taking decisions on recommendations for changes to local authority electoral arrangements and implementing them. Members of the Committee are: Pamela Gordon (Chair) Professor Michael Clarke CBE Robin Gray Joan Jones CBE Ann M Kelly Professor Colin Mellors Archie Gall (Director) We are required by law to review the electoral arrangements of every principal local authority in England. Our aim is to ensure that the number of electors represented by each councillor in an area is as nearly as possible the same, taking into account local circumstances. We can recommend changes to ward boundaries, the number of councillors and ward names. We can also recommend changes to the electoral arrangements of parish and town councils. This report sets out our final recommendations on the electoral arrangements for the borough of Wirral. 5 6 Summary The Local Government Commission for England (LGCE) began a review of Wirral’s electoral arrangements on 4 December 2001. As a consequence of the transfer of functions referred to earlier, it falls to us to complete the work of the LGCE. We published our draft recommendations for electoral arrangements on 3 September 2002, after which we undertook an eight-week period of consultation. We now submit final recommendations to The Electoral Commission. • This report summarises the representations that we received during consultation on our draft recommendations, and contains our final recommendations to The Electoral Commission. We found that the existing arrangements provide unequal representation of electors in Wirral: • in 10 of the 22 wards the number of electors represented by each councillor varies by more than 10% from the average for the borough and three wards vary by more than 20%; • by 2006 this situation is expected to continue, with the number of electors per councillor forecast to vary by more than 10% from the average in seven wards and by more than 20% in two wards. Our main final recommendations for future electoral arrangements (see Tables 1 and 2 and paragraphs 148–149) are that: • Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council should have 66 councillors, as at present; • there should be 22 wards, as at present; • the boundaries of all of the existing wards should be modified. The purpose of these proposals is to ensure that, in future, each borough councillor represents approximately the same number of electors, bearing in mind local circumstances. • In 20 of the proposed 22 wards the number of electors per councillor would vary by no more than 10% from the borough average. • This improved level of electoral equality is expected to improve further, with the number of electors per councillor in all wards expected to vary by no more than 10% from the average for the borough in 2006. All further correspondence on these final recommendations and the matters discussed in this report should be addressed to The Electoral Commission, which will not make an Order implementing them before 6 May 2003. The information in the representations will be available for public access once the Order has been made. The Secretary The Electoral Commission Trevelyan House Great Peter Street London SW1P 2HW Fax: 020 7271 0667 Email: [email protected] (This address should only be used for this purpose) 7 Table 1: Final recommendations: Summary Ward name Number of Constituent areas Map councillors reference Part of Bebington ward; part of Clatterbridge ward; 1 Bebington 3 4 and 5 part of Egerton ward. Part of Bidston ward; part of Birkenhead ward; part of 2 Bidston & St James 3 2 Claughton ward. Part of Birkenhead ward; part of Egerton ward; part of 3 Birkenhead 3 2 and 4 Oxton ward; part of Tranmere ward. Part of Bromborough ward; part of Eastham ward; part 4 Bromborough 3 5 of Tranmere ward. 5 Clatterbridge 3 Part of Bebington ward; part of Clatterbridge ward. 4 and 5 Part of Bidston ward; part of Birkenhead ward; part of 6 Claughton 3 2 and 4 Claughton ward; part of Oxton ward. 7 Eastham 3 Part of Bromborough ward; part of Eastham ward. 5 Part of Prenton ward; part of Royden ward; part of 1, 2, 3 and 8 Greasby, Frankby & Irby 3 Thurstaston ward; part of Upton ward. 4 9 Heswall 3 Part of Heswall ward. 3 and 4 Part of Hoylake ward (detached); part of Moreton 10 Hoylake & Meols 3 1, 2 and 3 ward; part of Royden ward. Leasowe & Moreton Part of Leasowe ward; part of Moreton ward; part of 11 3 2 East Wallasey ward. Part of Liscard ward; part of New Brighton ward; part 12 Liscard 3 2 of Wallasey ward. Moreton West & Part of Hoylake ward (detached); part of Moreton 13 3 1 and 2 Saughall Massie ward; part of Upton ward. 14 New Brighton 3 Part of New Brighton ward; part of Wallasey ward. 2 Part of Birkenhead ward; part of Claughton ward; part 15 Oxton 3 2 and 4 of Oxton ward. Part of Heswall ward; part of Prenton ward; part of 16 Pensby & Thingwall 3 4 Thurstaston ward. Part of Bebington ward; part of Egerton ward; part of 17 Prenton 3 4 Oxton ward; part of Prenton ward. Part of Bebington ward; part of Egerton ward; part of 18 Rock Ferry 3 2, 4 and 5 Tranmere ward. Part of Birkenhead ward; part of Liscard ward; 19 Seacombe 3 2 Seacombe ward. 20 Upton 3 Part of Prenton ward; part of Upton ward. 2 and 4 Part of Leasowe ward; part of New Brighton ward; part 21 Wallasey 3 2 of Wallasey ward. West Kirby & Part of Hoylake ward (detached); part of Royden 22 3 1, 3 and 4 Thurstaston ward; part of Thurstaston ward. Notes: 1) The whole borough is unparished. 2) The wards on the above table are illustrated on Map 2, in Appendix A and on the large maps. 3) We have made a number of minor boundary amendments to ensure that existing ward boundaries adhere to ground detail. These changes do not affect any electors. 8 Table 2: Final recommendations for Wirral Number of Number of Variance Variance No. of Electorate electors Electorate electors Ward name from from councillors (2001) per (2006) per average % average % councillor councillor 1 Bebington 3 12,157 4,052 8 11,975 3,992 5 2 Bidston & St James 3 11,807 3,936 4 11,961 3,987 5 3 Birkenhead 3 10,917 3,639 -3 11,815 3,938 3 4 Bromborough 3 11,156 3,719 -1 11,183 3,728 -2 5 Clatterbridge 3 12,518 4,173 11 12,139 4,046 6 6 Claughton 3 10,790 3,597 -5 11,692 3,897 2 7 Eastham 3 11,210 3,737 -1 11,180 3,727 -2 Greasby, Frankby & 8 3 11,803 3,934 4 11,548 3,849 1 Irby 9 Heswall 3 11,547 3,849 2 11,164 3,721 -2 10 Hoylake & Meols 3 10,889 3,630 -4 10,770 3,590 -6 Leasowe & Moreton 11 3 10,453 3,484 -8 11,396 3,799 0 East 12 Liscard 3 11,715 3,905 4 11,869 3,956 4 Moreton West & 13 3 11,162 3,721 -1 11,277 3,759 -1 Saughall Massie 14 New Brighton 3 11,037 3,679 -2 11,151 3,717 -3 15 Oxton 3 11,746 3,915 4 11,840 3,947 4 16 Pensby & Thingwall 3 10,675 3,558 -6 10,346 3,449 -10 17 Prenton 3 11,088 3,696 -2 10,990 3,663 -4 18 Rock Ferry 3 10,313 3,438 -9 10,784 3,595 -6 19 Seacombe 3 10,597 3,532 -6 11,605 3,868 1 20 Upton 3 12,529 4,176 11 12,460 4,153 9 21 Wallasey 3 11,954 3,985 6 12,010 4,003 5 West Kirby & 22 3 10,606 3,535 -6 10,502 3,501 -8 Thurstaston Totals 66 248,669 – – 251,657 – – Average – – 3,768 – – 3,813 – Notes: 1 The ‘variance from average’ columns show by how far, in percentage terms, the number of electors per councillor varies from the average for the borough.
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