Labour lost 13 seats overall and won in only three constituencies, down from 15 in 2011.
Aside from calling for an end to the bedroom tax and a guaranteed level of defence spending, one aspect of the DUP's Northern Ireland plan which Peter Robinson referred to in his recent Inside Politics interview, is its rejection of the previous proposal to cut Northern Ireland's constituencies down from 18 to 16 (as part of a general reduction in the size of the Commons).
It's a white mayor selling his African- American constituency down the river".
Lord Coe, the double Olympic 1,500m champion who was the only other senior figure apart from Jowell to oversee the games from the moment London won the right to host the games in 2005, said: "I'm very sorry that Tessa has decided to step down from constituency life.
At the 2005 election, however, he was also elected MP for the constituency, and he is stepping down from the assembly at this year's election to concentrate on his parliamentary work.
He created a shared purpose across all of the relevant constituencies, both military and civilian, top down from headquarters and bottom up from the field.
He stood down from his Winchester constituency, which he had held for more than a decade, before the 2010 general election and his seat fell to the Tories.
In the week Gordon Brown announced he will stand down from his Westminster constituency at the May 2015 general election, two central observations come to mind.
My abiding memory of those two days was the sheer euphoria, the sun coming up as we drove down from Tony's constituency in Sedgefield, him going quiet and feeling very responsible about what should happen next.
Local newspapers portray Mr Llewelyn as a modern ap Gruffudd fending off another challenger from England.A couple of doors down from Labour's constituency office in Ammanford, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr's main town, are the head-quarters of the local Plaid Cymru party.
This prompts charges that their exit has been greased so as to smooth the way for Tony Blair's supporters to get safe seats.Inducement: Sir Ray Powell, a Labour backbencher, claims that Ron Davies, the shadow Welsh secretary, offered him a seat in the House of Lords if he would stand down from his Commons constituency.
