Developing such ideas will not be helped by splitting the parliamentary constituency in two, or by building a bridge.

The record here involves 19 contenders in a parliamentary constituency.

Do we urgently need new parliamentary constituency boundaries?

The other electorally significant event of the past year was the collapse of the plan to equalise parliamentary constituency size.

Each parliamentary constituency contains 2 to 3 state legislative assembly constituencies, except in the federal territories where there are only parliamentary constituencies.