Talk:University constituency

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Doesn't Ireland still have a Graduate seat (or seats) in the Senate? Muppet 11:35 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Rules for Capitalization

This article is an excellent example of how the word "university" is undergoing capitalization in wide society today so that just about any occurence must be "University", irrespective of the rules of capitalization! Djegan 19:12, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Other plural voting?

"In 1948 the Labour government abolished the university constituencies, with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1950, along with all other examples of plural voting." What other examples existed at that time? Psmith 14:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I thought these were the last remaining ones... hmm. The relevant chapter of Independent Member doesn't give any other examples, but is clear that they were abolished on the one-man-one-vote principle. (p.394-7, debate of 16th March 1948 discussed, voting result 198 for Churchill's amendment to keep the seats and 328 against, if anyone's interested)

I suspect, though, they were cases like a man owning two residences, or a resident student at a university, being allowed to vote twice. Representation of the People Act 1948 seems to concur. Shimgray | talk | 19:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I think these were also the last multi-member constituencies in the UK, using Single Non-Transferable Vote, and then the only ones ever to use Single Transferable Vote. Is this true and, if so, is it worth mentioning? jnestorius^(talk) 00:20, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University constituencies in Scotland pre-1606

In the article is states "King James I of England, on ascending the English throne, brought to the English Parliament a practice which had been used in the Scottish Parliament of allowing the universities to elect members." This implies to me that there were university constituencies in Scotland pre 1606. Was this the case?