This was announced by Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer, Stéphane Perrault, in a press release on Friday afternoon.
Under Elections Canada’s proposed new seat distribution, British Columbia would have 43 seats; Alberta, 37; Saskatchewan, 14; Manitoba, 14; Ontario, 122; Quebec, 77; New Brunswick, 10; Nova Scotia, 11; Prince Edward Island, 4; Newfoundland and Labrador, 7; Yukon, 1; the Northwest Territories, 1; and Nunavut, 1.
So that’s one more seat for Ontario, which will go from 121 to 122 seats, and British Columbia, which will go from 42 to 43 seats. Alberta will be entitled to 3 more seats, up from 34 to 37. Quebec, which currently has 78 seats, will lose one. The number of seats in the Atlantic and Territories remains unchanged.
Under the Canadian Constitution, trail rides must be reviewed after a census every 10 years to reflect changes in the population. Provinces with population growth get additional seats. Quebec’s is growing slower than the average for the other provinces.
The Chief Electoral Officer makes the calculation based on population estimates from the Chief Statistician of Canada and a formula provided in the Constitution
we can read in the press release from Elections Canada.
This is the first time since 1966 that a province has lost a seat in the electoral map redraw.
A redefinition of federal voting boundaries is also expected across the country. This process, which is expected to begin in February 2022, will be led by independent, non-partisan commissions in each of the ten provinces. Your job is to redraw the election maps, taking into account, among other things, the average population in each horse farm.
In the past, the proposed changes have been strongly denounced by political parties who feared losing seats or seeing their communities divided by the new district elections. Others argued that some journeys were too long and MPs had to travel many hours to meet their constituents.
The new electoral map is expected to be completed in October 2023, but will not take effect immediately. Elections Canada claims the changes will take effect no earlier than April 2024, possibly after the next election.
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