Boundary changes meant that the notional Labour majority in the seat had increased substantially.
Boundary changes mean the number of county councillors is being cut from 74 to 63.
So with no boundary changes, there will be fewer Tory MPs seeing their majorities reduced.
True, the British public has more to worry about than either Lords reform or boundary changes.
Did you brood on your way to work about when MPs should vote on planned boundary changes?
Each, on past showing, and after small boundary changes, could fall to either Labour or the Conservatives.
She said it had been a challenging year as checks had discovered large numbers of field boundary changes.
With boundary changes and, perhaps, fewer MLAs per seat, Stormont will be a smaller legislature in the future.
Nick Clegg is now firmly opposed to boundary changes and has said he will vote against them in 2014.
The Kensington constituency, submerged into Kensington and Chelsea in 1997 boundary changes, has been revived in the latest seats shake-up.
The council said the original motto had been replaced due to boundary changes which brought in several urban district councils.
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Not least because many Tory MPs - as individuals - will not grieve too much at the loss of boundary changes.
And Downing Street said it was still the prime minister's intention to have a Commons vote on boundary changes next year.
He denied there were any talks going on about offering party funding changes in return for the Lib Dems supporting boundary changes.
BBC: Grant Shapps still hopes MP boundary changes will happen
These showed that Ofqual ordered the board to make grade boundary changes against its will just two weeks before the results were published.
But Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted he will press ahead with the boundary changes plan and push it to a vote in Parliament.
BBC: Grant Shapps still hopes MP boundary changes will happen
When he appeared before a committee of MPs earlier this year, Mr Clegg said there was no link between Lords reform and the boundary changes.
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However, boundary changes in 1997 made this seat safer for Labour.
BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Strathkelvin & Bearsden
Suffice it to say that the Lib Dems and Conservatives disagree about how much the boundary changes were in any way tied to Lords reform.
Last year's public rows about voting systems, House of Lords reform, boundary changes and Leveson fuelled the idea that this government was beginning to fall apart.
But Lord Liddle tabled a motion to regret the planned district council boundary changes in Cumbria, during a debate on the subject on 3 December 2012.
Having reneged on their Coalition agreement commitment to vote through the boundary changes, the Lib Dems would look pretty silly if they u-turned on their u-turn.
With Nick Clegg having told Liberal Democrat MPs to vote against boundary changes, it does not look as if it will end happily for the Conservatives.
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As part of a wider inquiry into boundary changes, the Scottish affairs committee is poised to launch an investigation into how the trend can be reversed.
The additional-member voting system proposed by Lord Jenkins requires boundary changes that could not in any case be introduced in time for the next general election.
The boundary changes, approved in principle by Parliament last year, would see England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland lose 31, seven, 10 and two seats respectively.
The boundary changes, approved in principle by Parliament last year, would see England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland lose 31, 7, 10 and 2 seats respectively.
There have been no boundary changes to this constituency in recent times, but local politics have been drastically altered by the abolition of the county of Humberside.
BBC: NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Great Grimsby
He argued that the Lords' clerks had made clear that the Labour amendment on boundary changes was inadmissible because it had nothing to do with voter registration.
Lib Dem MPs were rumbling ominously about blocking the Conservatives' coveted boundary changes in revenge (but that would require their ministers to vote against a coalition measure).
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