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Five local MPs fight to keep seats
Tuesday 13th September 2011, 9:25AM BST.
Five MPs in the Black Country and Staffordshire face a fight to keep their seats in the next general election.
Wolverhampton MPs Pat McFadden and Paul Uppal, Sandwell’s Tom Watson and Adrian Bailey, and Stone MP Bill Cash are at risk in the biggest review of constituency boundaries in electoral history.
The West Midlands’ political map is being transformed, under the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s plans to equalise the size of parliamentary seats and cut the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600.
The area will see its parliamentary representation reduced from 59 to 54 MPs.
Constituencies across the whole of Britain have been radically revised to have roughly the same number of voters, about 75,000.
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