Selkirk commemorates and celebrates her history at the annual Common Riding, always held on the first Friday after the second Monday in June, when the town's boundaries or ' marches ' are ridden.

The 2011 boundaries for Selkirk highlighted in red

The 1998-2011 boundaries for Selkirk highlighted in red

The Common Riding festivals of many Southern Upland towns such as Jedburgh, Kelso, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk and Langholm recall this history, re-enacting the practice of riding the boundaries of the town to enable warning to be given of raids from the south.

The Tweedale district had been created with the boundaries of the former county of Peebles.

Note that the constituency boundaries do not align exactly with those of the district of the same name.

These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries in order to get reliable data for election purposes as well.

Some countries, such as Australia, Canada, and the UK, authorize non-partisan organizations to set constituency boundaries in an attempt to prevent gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is most common in countries where elected politicians are responsible for defining constituency boundaries.

The Commission is charged with defining constituency boundaries, and the 1997 Act provides that the breaching of county boundaries shall be avoided as far as practicable.

These areas do not overlap with constituency boundaries in order to get reliable data for election purposes as well.

Scottish local government counties were abolished in 1975, in favour of regions and districts, but the next reform of constituency boundaries was not until 1983.

Constituencies covering Ayrshire may be listed by periods as below, but the story is somewhat more complicated than the lists may imply: until 1918, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs included burghs lying outside both Ayrshire and Buteshire ; a particular constituency name may represent different boundaries in different periods ; in 1974, there were boundary changes without the creation of any new constituency names.

At the United Kingdom general election, 2010, the boundaries of these constituencies will changed to a new Hornchurch and Upminster constituency and Rainham will become part of the new cross-borough Dagenham and Rainham constituency.

New wards and boundaries of the Beckenham Parliament constituency ( red ) within the London Borough of Bromley ( yellow )

The wards and boundaries for the Bromley and Chislehurst Parliament constituency ( red ) as first used in the United Kingdom general election, 2010 | 2010 general election, shown within the London Borough of Bromley ( yellow )

New wards and boundaries of Lewisham Deptford Parliament constituency ( red ) shown within the London Borough of Lewisham ( orange )

However, the boundaries of the constituency do not match the local authority with six wards ( The Raynham, Wemsum, Walsingham, Astley, Fakenham South and North ) now removed from the North Norfolk Constituency and placed in to the new Broadland seat.

While there are town councils and mayors in Singapore, these are essentially property managers in charge of the maintenance of public housing within their constituency boundaries.

The constitution requires that constituency boundaries be reviewed at least once in every twelve years, so that boundaries may be redrawn to accommodate changes in population.

Cosgrave, together with James Tully, the Labour Minister for Local Government had redrawn the constituency boundaries to favour Fine Gael and Labour for the first time ( the " Tullymander ") and they confidently expected the new boundaries would win for them.

Commentators pointed to the state of Britain's constituency boundaries coupled with the first-past-the-post British voting system and the distribution of votes within constituencies, which together heavily favour the Labour Party.

Her constituency boundaries changed for the 2010 general election.

The charges that the Stormont seats ( as opposed to local council wards ) were gerrymandered against Nationalists is disputed by historians ( since the number of Nationalists elected under the two systems barely changed ), though it is agreed that losses under the change to single-member constituency boundaries were suffered by independent unionists, the Liberals and the Northern Ireland Labour Party.

On 27 April 1965, a day known in the Bahamas as " Black Tuesday ", Lynden Pindling, then Opposition Leader, threw the 165 year old Speaker's Mace out of a House of Assembly window to protest the unfair gerrymandering of constituency boundaries by the then ruling United Bahamian Party ( UBP ) government.

These boundaries have since become blurred, and it should be noted even in times long gone, many ballroom dances were really elevated folk dances.

These were the Yaoundé II Declaration of 4 April 1971 and the Maroua Declaration of 1 June 1975, which were devised to outline maritime boundaries between the two countries following their independence.

Counties and boroughs were abolished and all boundaries were redrawn.

The moor gave its name ( Foweymore ) to one of the medieval districts called stannaries which administered tin mining: the boundaries of these were never defined precisely.

In 1008, after long negotiations with the Bishops of Würzburg and Eichstätt, who were to cede portions of their dioceses, the boundaries of the new diocese were defined, and Pope John XVIII granted the papal confirmation in the same year.

In 1930, the boundaries between the 88 constellations were devised by Eugène Delporte along vertical and horizontal lines of right ascension and declination.

Cambodia's boundaries were for the most part based upon those recognized by France and by neighboring countries during the colonial period.

The dissenters were discontented with the general leftward trend in USCJ policies over the previous decades, such as " prayer book revision, egalitarianism, redefining halakhic boundaries of sexual relationships, and advocacy of Israel accepting conversions that are non-halakhic even by Conservative standards "., and the Union suggests that " The Conservative Movement thus appears to endorse the notion that changing societal norms can supersede the proper application of halakhic sources ".

Ivory Dominoes were routinely used in 19th century rural England in the settling of disputes over traditional grazing boundaries, and were commonly referred to as " bonesticks " ( see Hartley, Land Law in West Lancashire in the mid-19th Century, Farm Gazette, March 1984 ).

From 1842, the boundaries of the city were comprehended by the baronies of Dublin City and the Barony of Dublin.

In 1930, the boundaries were extended by the Local Government ( Dublin ) Act.

Later in 1953, the boundaries were again extended by the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act

His twenty-one-year reign was marked by efforts to modernize and establish control of the kingdom, whose boundaries were delineated by the two empires bordering it.

The boundaries of modern Eritrea and the entire region were established during the European colonial period between Italian, British and French colonialists as well as the lone landlocked African Empire of Abyssinia which found itself surrounded and its boundaries defined by said colonial powers.

Meanwhile, Kammu's armies were pushing back the boundaries of his empire.

Pakistan's boundaries were established hastily without adequate regard for the new nation's economic viability.

The boundaries were the Marne and Seine in the West, with Armorica ( Brittany ), and the Rhine in the East, with Frisia.

The latter in particular pushed back the boundaries of fanzine production, producing glossy, professionally written and printed publications at a time ( 1983 – 86 ) when most fanzines were produced via photocopier and letraset.

There are examples of stars bearing Flamsteed designations for constellations in which they do not lie, just as there are for Bayer designations, because of the compromises that had to be made when the modern constellation boundaries were drawn up.

When England switched to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs.