Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts 2012

[Citizen Hats]

A maximum deviation of 1.2% from the provincial average is quite unnecessary, and hinders your usual creativity.

US redistricting often involves obscenely small deviations, unfortunately.

425 out of the current 435 U.S. Congressional Districts (based on the 2010 Census) have deviations within 0.1% of their state quotient.  The remaining ten districts are in Maryland and West Virginia, the only two states that permit deviations between 0.1% and 1.0%.

http://cookpolitical.com/story/5478

Wow; looks like you should've made them even closer.

The US really is a country where the geographic-representation-forest cannot be seen for the geographic-representation-trees. 

[Citizen Hats]

"British Columbia Southern Interior" is a beautiful, beautiful name.

I hope that's sarcasm.

I'd really like to see a lot of the superfluous directionals removed from riding names. There isn't a North Okanagan-Eask Kootenay, so why don't we just call it Okanagan-Kooteney? There is no Burnaby South-Seymour or East Okanagan-Coquihalla. If I were the redistribution king, I would mandate that directionals were minimized to where a proper toponomy simply can't be found. I'd also like to see m-dashes in riding names limited to one

[Citizen Hats]

Only one of those has more than one emdash?

[Citizen Hats]

ya, no more 'West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea-to-Sky Country.  I'd like to see it renamed Howe Sound or Garibaldi or something. 

[Citizen Hats]

Ideally there should be a set of rules for naming ridings, and that in the very least the name should apply to at least 90% of inhabitants.

While that would produce names that our tasteless parliamentarians could accept, it wouldn't actually make them more manageable.  I personally think that the Alberta Commission did the best job with names this time

[Citizen Hats]

Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes nearly beats West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea-to-Sky Country for syllable count. What an awful name.  Brantford-Brant gets honorable mention for derpishness

on the other hand, I would say that Orléans, Carlton, Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, and North Island-Powell River are decided improvements, and Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke is a modest one

[Citizen Hats]

Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes nearly beats West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea-to-Sky Country for syllable count. What an awful name.  

Especially awful since there's absolutely no need for the name change. It's the same boundaries as before, and the boundaries are the exact same as the geographic Leeds & Grenville United Counties. Maybe it's a tourism issue.

In some of the other ridings, there's been a trend to lump in the names of independent cities (not under county administration). But calling the riding Leeds-Grenville-Brockville-Gananoque-Prescott would be only slightly more terrible.

So, arguably more horrible than West Van etc, being that West Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, and the Sea-to-Sky Country are geographically and administratively separate regions with no common name.  I woulda just called the whole thing Howe Sound, but that's just me

[Citizen Hats]

Can we have "Wolfe" back?

[Citizen Hats]

I have no desire to see Wolfe back as an administrative unit. I'm just amused that such a thing used to exist