DETAILS have been revealed of changes in our region's Parliamentary constituencies.

The Boundary Commission yesterday released its proposals to redraw constituency boundaries in 2018, and cut the number of MPs in the UK from 650 to 600.

MPs had been briefed on the plans a day earlier, and the drafts were leaked ahead of yesterday’s formal announcement.

The number of MPs representing Yorkshire will be cut by four from 54 to 50 under the proposals, and significant changes are planned for parts of the region, including changes in the Selby constituency.

In York, the changes are kept to a minor redrawing of boundaries, to reflect changes in council wards which took place ahead of last May’s election.

York Press:

The Labour-held York Central constituency will expand slightly to take in the University of York campus - which is now part of the Hull Road ward on City of York Council - and will simultaneously lose small parts of the Rawcliffe and Clifton Without and Heworth Without wards to the Conservative-held York Outer constituency.

The University of York campus accounts for around 5,000 votes.

More changes are in line for Selby and Ainsty voters, and people in Byram and Brotherton will find themselves represented by the West Yorkshire MP for Normanton, Castleford and Outwood; and people in the Whitley ward in the south of Selby district will be represented by the MP for Pontefract.

At the same time, people in Boroughbridge and villages like Ferrensby and Staveley will be represented by the Selby MP Nigel Adams, instead of the Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones.

Ryedale’s Thirsk and Malton seat will lose the coastal town of Filey to the Scarborough and Whitby constituency, while it will gain Great Ayton, which is currently part of the Richmond constituency.

All three are held by Conservative MPs. The new constituencies must contain between 71,031 and 78,507 electors, by law. There will be consultations in Leeds, Sheffield, Northallerton and Hull in October.