VICTORIA — British Columbia's Electoral Boundaries Commission is recommending the creation of six more electoral districts in the province, raising the number of ridings to 93 from the current 87.
The commission has submitted its final report and elected members of the legislature must decide whether to accept all, some or none of its recommendations.
It says many ridings across Greater Vancouver continue to grow quickly and are already more than 25 per cent above the quotient that ensures fair representation by population. “We do not recommend reducing the number of ridings in more sparsely populated areas of the province because doing so would undermine effective representation," Iyer says in a statement.
The report points to the Kootenay region where two of the four current electoral districts, Columbia River-Revelstoke and Nelson-Creston, are among 11 that fall below the accepted number of residents, while six in other parts of B.C. are higher than the maximum. "Although we carefully examined options for consolidating the current six ridings into five, we are convinced that any such changes would deprive residents of these districts of effective representation," the commission says of the large, remote ridings that include challenging terrain and weather and often poor internet connectivity.
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