Work To Start Soon on Drawing New Federal Electoral Ridings
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 @ 4:00 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The province of B.C. will have 6 more seats in the House of Commons, bringing its total to 42, when the next Federal Election takes place in October of 2015.
The Federal Government has adopted the Fair Representation Act and the process of redrawing the federal electoral boundaries to create the new seats within each province is expected to start February 8th with the release of census data for 2011. A Commission will have to be established (no later than 60 days after the release of the Census data) in each province where there is to be change.
Following that, there will be a public hearing, and the final decision expected in September of 2013.
The other changes across the country are:
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Province
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Current # of Seats
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New # of Seats
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Alberta
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28
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34
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Saskatchewan
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14
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14
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Manitoba
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14
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14
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Ontario
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106
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121
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Quebec
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75
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78
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New Brunswick
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10
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10
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Nova Scotia
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11
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11
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P.E.I
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4
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4
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Newfoundland/Labrador
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7
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7
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Yukon
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1
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1
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NWT
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1
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1
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Nunavut
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1
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1
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Comments
Fair representation Act. So before the change, Ontario and Quebec had 58.7% of the seats. After the change, they now have 58.9%.
So I suppose it depends from what part of Canada your representing that makes it fair.
Whoa whoa whoa, how many more MPs are we adding to the payroll? 30? WTF. That’s $4.7 million in new salaries every year, plus all the new travel and expense accounts, not to mention the adminstrative cost of changing all the electoral boundaries.
Disgusting.
Don’t blame Ontario, it’s Quebec. BC, Alberta & Ontario are all currently under represented in Ottawa based on MPs per population. After the proposed addition of 30 MPs all three will still be under represented. For some reason Quebec is getting 3 of the new MPs even though they are already over represented and they are definetly not taking any MPs away from the smaller provinces.
After the adjustment Ontario will still have a higher population per MP than BC. Alberta will have the least favourable representation ratio.
And next time you vote in a federal election don’t forget that the NDP have been complaining that 3 extra seats for Quebec is not enough.
This is the commons, not the senate. Thus representation is by population. It is the way it works.
Only three provinces have increased their portion of the total votes.
Sorted in order of total percentage of total country seats gain.
Ontario1.38%
alberta0.97%
bc0.74%
Yukon-0.03%
NWT-0.03%
Nunavut-0.03%
P.E.I-0.12%
Newfoundland/Labrador-0.20%
New Brunswick-0.29%
Nova Scotia-0.32%
Saskatchewan-0.40%
Manitoba-0.40%
Quebec-1.27%
Notice that Quebec fared the worst of all.
Here is the order of best to worst representation by population.
The figures show the number of seats in a new 330 seat house of commons, with the population as estimated by statscan for July 1, 2011, and the number of people each seat represents on average in the province/territory.
Nunavut133,32233,322
Yukon134,66634,666
P.E.I4145,85536,464
NWT143,67543,675
Newfoundland/Labrador7510,57872,940
New Brunswick10755,45575,546
Saskatchewan141,057,88475,563
Nova Scotia11945,43785,949
Manitoba141,250,57489,327
Quebec787,979,663102,303
BC424,573,321108,889
Ontario12113,372,996110,521
Alberta343,779,353111,157
I thought the Conservatives were all about smaller government? Strange way of showing it, LOL.
If they were smart they’d divide up the Peace Region for all those new seats…..
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