To get a sample of 500 from a constituency electorate of 70,000 you need to poll 1 person in 140 from the electorate in the seat. With poll response rates being what they are, it means you need to ma… (View Post)

The 326th smallest constituency is Windsor, just under 111sqkm. Total smallest area for a majority is 14,219sqkm, which is a bit larger than the largest single constituency (Caithness, Sutherland and… (View Post)

Well, yes, the challenge is finding the list of seats by land area. For anyone else interested I found it here: https://pages.mysociety.org/2025-constituencies/datasets/parliament_con_2025/0_1_4 Asid… (View Post)

Answering my own question, for the UK as a whole, you would need the 45 largest constituencies to cover half of the UK area. 6 of the 45 are in NI, the ten largest constituencies are all in Scotland,… (View Post)

What's the minimum number of seats that would cover half of Britain by land area? (View Post)