an election fact

Posted on January 24, 2006 by Megan

quickly – you do the math:

i live in the “West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky” riding (this includes Powell River, Gibsons, Sechelt, a bunch of islands, West Vancouver, Squamish and Whistler). my riding has a total population of 124, 572. please note – this is a *single* riding, with one elected MP.

PEI (the island-province on the other side of the country) which has a population of 138,000 includes *four* ridings. yes, that’s right… a population of approximatley the same size receives four members of parliament. in fact the “city” of Charlottetown with a population of 32,245 has one all to itself.

does anyone actually know how our ridings are supposed to be divided up? can you explain? because it’s sure as hell not rep by pop which is what i learned in school.

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3 Comments on “an election fact”

e
January 25, 2006

if i were a national party leader, i believe i’d only spend 1/4 as much time talking to you, as those lovely PEI folks.

check out the geographic area of my home riding (proudly still NDP) in the nortwest coast of BC. practically a quarter of the province.

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red cedar
January 25, 2006

that’s no answer! nice try. don’t you feel alienated? huh? western and all that?

🙂

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Delire
January 31, 2006

The ridings are slices of a badly-out-of-date population pie (so said the Greens I worked for last year).

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