Millions of ‘missing voters’ cost Labour seats due to electoral boundaries bias

Analysis of official data has revealed the system for drawing constituencies is warping' democracy by omitting eligible voters

British democracy is being warped" by an unfair system for drawing constituency boundaries that ignores millions of missing voters" and hugely benefits the Tories, according to a new study of official data.

Analysis by the political commentator and pollster Peter Kellner shows that if constituencies were determined according to the size of their populations rather than the number of registered voters - as happens in most other advanced democracies - then the number of extra Labour seats created would cut the Tories' Commons majority by 22.