Wales is losing a bigger share of constituencies than any other part of the UK.
I find strong statistical evidence supporting my argument; the ruling elite's aggressive expansion in the District Councils, the lowest elected tier, aims to drive out the opposition elites, who, by occupying a District Council seat, are able to increase their vote share of that constituency by 4 5 percentage points in a subsequent legislative election.
Mary balks at ID Politics but when one party gets a smaller share of a growing constituency, that's a big long-term problem.
In 2010, the Conservatives won 15 seats here and Labour lost 14 bringing their respective share of our 63 constituencies to 36 Conservatives, 24 Labour and 3 Liberal Democrats in the now-defunct Parliament.
In poor countries, the rural population represents a greater share of the total political constituency and this creates political incentives to maintain an unjustifiably large rural economy.
In 2011, the Scottish National party won an outright majority at Holyrood on the back of a 46% share in constituency votes and a 44% share of regional list votes.
Seats are allocated on a proportional representation basis to each party depending on their list's share of the vote, with the constituency MPs allocated first and the list afterwards.
Ms Harper said she was proud to have increased the SNP's share of the vote in the constituency from 10.5% five years ago.
Under the system of proportional representation, individual parties have already stated in which order their candidates will take up the party's share of the seats in each constituency.
The combined share of the vote of these constituencies could be as much as 35 percent.
