Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

89A: Clause 11, page 11, leave out lines 12 to 26 and insert— ““Allocation of constituencies (1) The adjusted UK electoral quota shall then be calculated as the total electorate of the United Kingdom less the areas listed in rule 4(1) divided by 650 minus the total number of seats allocated to the areas listed in rule 4(1). (2) Each part of the United Kingdom shall then be allocated a whole number of seats as follows. (3) The first seat shall be allocated to the part of the United Kingdom with the largest electorate. (4) The second and subsequent constituencies shall be allocated in the same way, except that the electorate of a part of the United Kingdom to which one or more constituencies have already been allocated is to be divided by— 2C+1 where C is the number of constituencies already allocated to that part. (5) An electoral quota shall then be calculated for each of the four parts of the United Kingdom by dividing the electorate of each part of the United Kingdom by the number of seats allocated as described in rules 5(3) and 5(4). (6) The total number of seats to be allocated to any part of the United Kingdom shall not be more than 10% above or below the current number of constituencies, and if the number of seats allocated by the process described in rules 5(3) and 5(4) exceeds that limit, then additional or fewer seats shall be allocated as appropriate sufficient to bring the allocation within 10% of the current number of seats in the part of the United Kingdom concerned. (7) This adjusted number of seats shall be the allocation for that part of the United Kingdom for the purposes of rule 5(5).””