Program GROUP: The Identification of All Possible Solutions to a Constituency-Delimitation Problem

1 February 1981

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Vol. 13 (2) , 231-238
https://doi.org/10.1068/a130231

Abstract

A computer program is designed to produce all of the electoral constituencies for an English local authority, within the constraints imposed on the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners. This builds on the seminal work of Gudgin and Taylor, and introduces size constraints, evaluates shape, and evaluates the electoral consequences of swings in voter opinion.

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