The constituency of Stretford was created in 1885, and existed until 1997, when it was replaced by the present constituency of Stretford and Urmston.
For the present, both constituencies retain two Board positions, which will hopefully preserve a balance between private and public perspectives.
The home education community was generally alarmed and upset, and began a fightback that made history when 70 MP's presented 120 constituency petitions opposing changes qualifying the right to home educate.
It is as if students were a bottomless pit of funding, an alien constituency present only as part of an abstract economic equation.
It is a time when European environmentalists fret about auto pollution and, this year, some politicians have begun to see the risk to their constituencies presented by ever-higher gasoline prices.
Sinn Fein has two of Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster constituencies at present - Gerry Adams' West Belfast republican heartland and Martin McGuinness in Mid-Ulster - while the SDLP has three, all of which are likely to be held.
A spokesman for Watson subsequently made it clear he had not realised there were no staff members present in Creasy's constituency office when the march took place.
Peter Kellner, president of YouGov, said Ashcroft "does his very best to produce accurate data", but warned constituency polls present difficulties for pollsters.
After the first round, on the present FPTP, single-member constituency system, all parties would keep the seats they had won.
It is widely thought that the reform of the boundaries to equalise the size of constituency electorates would help the Conservatives substantially, since at present their MPs are in constituencies with larger numbers of voters.
