By using Facebook, Twitter and the like, and courting Web sites and bloggers, filmmakers are connecting with existing constituencies.
In 1983 the Boundaries Commission absorbed Heywood and Royton into existing constituencies, all with sitting Labour MPs, and Barnett was made a peer.
"It's hard to convince an elected official to alienate existing constituencies in order to make the world better in 15 years," Mr. Grumet said.
Your report about forthcoming Westminster constituency boundary changes (Constituency review 'will hit Labour hard', 29 August) suggests that only existing constituencies outside the new quota range are under threat.
Hence, there were no existing constituencies - in the private sector, the environmental advocacy community, or government - for the status quo approach, because there was no status quo approach.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire in 2005, the Boundary Commission for England made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes.
As new districts were created by splitting existing constituencies within the same region, it was often possible to track back their districts of origin and to attribute the data accordingly, using the largest common denominator for the number of districts.
Under Labour rules for deciding who represents rejigged constituencies, MPs need more than 40% of the seat to contain their existing constituents to have a chance to compete for it.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Eccles be split between two new constituencies; Salford and Eccles, from the existing Salford constituency and the central/eastern part of Eccles, and Worsley and Eccles South, from the existing Worsley constituency and the southern/western part of Eccles.
