• Geoffrey Vero, chairman of the Surrey Heath Conservative Constituency Association, who wants the bill to be delayed, told the BBC's Daily Politics it was costing the party votes, and some supporters were no longer prepared to help out with canvassing.

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  • But he has proven electoral appeal, having wrested control of the traditionally conservative Bundang constituency in a by-election in April.

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  • The conservative Malay constituency is well represented by nationalist politicians within UMNO, including Home Minister Hishamuddin Hussein and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

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  • But supporters of the plan have hit back, with over 50 Conservative activists, including constituency chairmen, the chair of Conservative Future - the party's section for under 30s - and the chair of the National Conservative Convention - which leads the party's grassroots work - urging MPs to listen to the "wider views" of voters.

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  • Mark Field, a Conservative MP whose constituency includes the City of London, also warned of the dangers of uncertainty hanging over the banking sector.

    BBC: Business

  • Lord McAlpine said that on his one visit to Wrexham he had gone to the local Constituency Conservative Association in his then-capacity as deputy chairman of the party.

    BBC: Lord McAlpine says abuse claims false and defamatory

  • William Hague, the Conservative MP in whose constituency the hospital is located, said the maternity service plans were "a serious blow" to local residents.

    BBC: Friarage Hospital plans to go to public consultation

  • Hannah lived in the Richmond constituency of Conservative leader William Hague.

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  • He is the first Jones to do the job, rather more significantly, the first Conservative representing a Welsh constituency since Nicholas Edwards in the 1980s.

    BBC: The only Jones in the Wales Office

  • Gareth Thomas, the Labour MP for Harrow West and a former international development minister, told the committee he had been "worried" by the influx of Conservative money into his constituency during the general election campaign.

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  • Labour said the Conservative campaign in the constituency was "in chaos", while the Lib Dems said some Conservatives were so intent on disrupting the coalition's green agenda they were "prepared to stab their own candidates in the back to do it".

    BBC: UK Politics

  • In a county where every constituency has a Conservative MP, Mrs Iles had been expected to win.

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  • The chairman of his home constituency's Conservative Association Barry Tanswell said he was "extremely shocked" by the announcement.

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  • There is no doubt that the Blairites were acutely conscious of the value of cultivating ties with business as a way of cutting into the natural constituency of the Conservative Party, and making the point that Labour could be trusted with economic management.

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  • He said there was feeling in the constituency that it wanted a Conservative representative in Parliament.

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  • Conservative MP John Gummer - in whose Suffolk constituency Elliott was born - visited Texas last week to try and persuade the authorities to delay the execution.

    BBC: Time running out for death row Briton

  • Questioned by Conservative ex-cabinet minister Peter Lilley about how he would justify devoting much parliamentary time to Lords reform in the coming year, at a time of economic crisis, Mr Clegg rather pointedly noted that parliament had also devoted quite a lot of time to changing constituency boundaries - an exercise beloved of Conservative high command.

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  • He has suggested many Lib Dem MPs would find it "hard to swallow" proposed changes to Commons constituency boundaries in 2015 - thought to favour Conservative chances of getting a future majority - if changes to the House of Lords do not proceed.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • In 2003, Labour won Clwyd West by just 436 votes - but the Plaid, Conservative and Lib Dem candidates who had all lost in the constituency were nevertheless elected to the assembly, because in each case they were top of their party's regional list.

    BBC: Everyone has two votes - although you don't have to use both

  • But author and Conservative peer Lord Dobbs accused Mr Clegg of inventing a link between constituency boundaries and Lords reform as an excuse to "exact a little retribution" from his coalition partners.

    BBC: Peers vote to block MP constituency boundary changes

  • Two West Midlands Conservative MPs have said they are worried by the size of a new constituency, proposed by the Boundary Commission.

    BBC: MPs question size of new constituency

  • He was supported by the Conservative MP for Ilford North, Lee Scott, as well as his constituency neighbour Margaret Hodge, the MP for Barking, who warned that the move could increase health inequalities.

    BBC: MPs criticise Ilford hospital maternity changes

  • By the same token, Messrs Barbour, Daniels, Giuliani, Huntsman, Pawlenty and Romney would all be competing for more or less the same constituency, as tested, pragmatic, business-friendly centrists with conservative veneers of varying thickness.

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  • Since Mr. Santorum has already beaten both men in Iowa and New Hampshire, South Carolina gives him the opportunity to emerge as the principal conservative alternative to the Romney juggernaut, even as Ron Paul continues to hold his libertarian constituency and Mr. Huntsman attracts party moderates.

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  • Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, said he had seen a huge increase in the disease in his constituency.

    BBC: MPs reject government plans for pilot badger cull

  • Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, Andrew Bridgen, said the plans could cost local jobs in his constituency and he has urged the transport secretary to rethink the route.

    BBC: HS2: Transport minister says 'upset' is inevitable

  • Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has told the BBC he "hasn't given up hope" changes to constituency boundaries will happen.

    BBC: Grant Shapps still hopes MP boundary changes will happen

  • David Cameron told Welsh Conservative MPs he didn't want "any silliness" when the Boundary Commission published its plans for new constituency boundaries.

    BBC: Breaking down the boundaries

  • Brandon Lewis, Great Yarmouth's Conservative MP, is going on a bus tour to speak to people in the far flung corners of his constituency.

    BBC: Summer recess is no holiday for MPs

  • James Paice (Cambridgeshire South East, Conservative) wondered if members of the Labour Party were not contesting local council seats they currently hold in his constituency because of Mr Prescott's planning decisions to build on greenbelt land.

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