New research by the independent research organisation Democratic Audit shows that more than half of MPs don’t represent their region of birth.
Democratic Audit has published new analysis of the geographical backgrounds of Members of Parliament.
It sets out regions MPs were born in and where they attended secondary school.
Key findings of the research are:
· Only 49% of MPs represent a constituency in the same region in which they were born. 51% of MPs represent a constituency in the same region in which they finished secondary school.
· MPs’ movements are defined partly by their party membership. Both Labour and the Conservatives tend to import MPs to represent their stronghold areas. For instance, 40% of Labour-held seats are in the north of England, but only 31% of its MPs were born in the north.
· Scotland appears to the most ‘successful’ region with regards to its parliamentary representation. Scotland is the biggest net exporter of MPs to the rest of the UK: while there are 59 constituencies in Scotland, 85 MPs were born and/or schooled north of the border.
The second part of this analysis, to be published later this month, will examine where MPs attended university and where they worked before being elected.
Democratic Audit is based in the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Patrick Dunleavy and Dr Jonathan Hopkin are the directors of Democratic Audit.
via Newswire Liberal Conspiracy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/07/17/more-than-half-of-mps-dont-represent-region-of-birth/
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