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| Jan 5, 2022 at 12:57 | comment | added | BeaglesEnd | @StephenG, You are comparing apples & oranges when talking about the London Assembly, it doesn't perform the same function as Buckinghamshire Council. You'd need to compare the London Borough Councils to Bucks Council. There are 1,833 local councillors that cover all London Boroughs (as per origimbo answer) as opposed to the 147 local councillors for the Buckinghamshire Council. In terms of population per councillor it is far better matched. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | origimbo | @StephenG I suspect you've found a figure for the "London metropolitan areas" or similar, which includes people living in other local authorities, including Buckinghamshire. You should probably also note that Bucks council doesn't cover Milton Keynes, which is a separate unitary authority, hence the 500,000 in the question. Overall, that does mean an average Bucks councillor has fewer constituents than an average London councillor, but not on the scale of (say) Rutland, another non-metropolitan unitary authority with 27 councillors for less than 40,000 people. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 7:23 | comment | added | Jontia | @StephenG the population of London is 9million, not 14. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 3:40 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Buckingham has a pop of less than 1 million, London over 14 million, so per capita doesn't Buckingham still have more seats than London ? | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | origimbo | @Jontia because people tend to get annoyed at giving up representation they already have. As CDJB's link points out above, and alternative division could feasibly have run with 98 councillors across the 49 wards, but this would have reduced the total number of votes some areas would have had. In general, local govenment in England is a result of accidents of history rather than policy or strategy. | |
| Dec 23, 2021 at 18:41 | comment | added | Jontia | A lack a diversity in opinion is surely an argument for lower numbers of elected officials not more. Why have 130 vs 17 instead of 13 vs 2? | |
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| Dec 23, 2021 at 15:32 | history | answered | origimbo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |