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Originally Posted by jaysay
Boundary changes have become something of a pastime in this country, which carries a raft of civil servants (Boundaries Commission) just wondering if this goes on in other countries, I'm sure Eric, SJ Alan Gilmartin, and other expats living worldwide could enlighten us  |
Sorry ... even though I'm interested in the UK's latest forray into gerrymandering ... our model is of no use to you. For example, Calgary Centre has almost 90,000 voters, and the Yukon has only about 23, 000 ... However the area of Calgary Centre is 42 km2, while in the Yukon, it is 482,445 km2
And we have to consider the regions: Quebec has a certain degree of guaranteed representation, as do the Maritimes and the Prairie Provinces. It's a mess ... but it's the nature of a country having most of its population concentrated in realtively few centres. If the Great Barren Lands had a constituency the voting population would consist entirely of bears, moose, and other assorted wild life
