Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts 2012

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Australia wants a word with you.

There's also Islwyn in South Wales, arguably anyway.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No. (Well, yes, it's there. But it's named for the hill and ancient parish, and later urban district though that covered a much smaller area. Not for the poet who also styled himself after the hill.)

I did write 'arguably'

Though the ancient name is Mynyddislwyn. So it could be argued that 70s bureaucrats accidentally named the local government area (and then constituency) after a poet

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Telford is pretty random, actually. Dawley New Town had become a bit of a PR disaster and needed a new name, the man in charge (Brummie machine politician Frank Price) had a thing for Thomas Telford, and so it was. The man himself had more to do with Shrewsbury, regrettably for Shrewsbury.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

On the subject of naming ridings after people, 'Mordecai-Richler' would make a great constituency name...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Good point; sounds like they just grandfathered in the old riding names without thinking there (and I can see that being fixed pronto).

Ah, but boundary-drawing bureaucrats do not always think like normal people. No stretch of the River Clwyd can be found in Clwyd South, and nor can any part of the Clwydian Range. It did all used to be part of the local government unit of Clwyd, but that only existed for about twenty years before it was abolished in 1996.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That's not exactly true; having rurban seats in the first place was (I think), but (and also, I think) the bizarre quartering adopted in the 1990s was a Liberal gerrymander.