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Originally Posted by Anthony Butcher
That would require an increase in the number of MPs....
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Yes, if present constituency boundaries were retained.
But under the Total Representation voting system one could have a House of Commons with 450 MPs representing constituencies of about 88, 000 voters each (constituencies slightly larger than we have now in terms of average number of voters in each) and another 100 - 150 MPs from a 'top-up' partly or fully proportional voting list of the kind I refer to in my last posting to this thread. A total of up to 600 MPs - less than the number we have now.