Not really a surprise, I was WRONG about redistricting. There will be new boundaries for the 2017 election. I believe Vaughn Palmer wrote about 40 of the 85 present ridings will be affected and there will be two new ridings, one in Surrey and one in Richmond.
The good news for me is that I no longer will be represented by the less than useless Linda Reid, so I will now be free to vote for the B.C Liberal Party should I find them to be a better option than the Greens or the NDP, though at this point I find John Horgan to be a much better leader than Christy Clark.
I will be moved into the new riding of Richmond-Queensborough, most of which had apparently been previously in the New Westminster riding. I don't know much about this area's electoral history, but if it's anything like New Westminster, the NDP may actually have a chance to finally win a riding in Richmond, something they haven't done in over 40 years.
You can find the proposed new boundaries on the elections B.C website and you can read about the changes in today's column by Vaughn Palmer. As Palmer says, the proposed new boundaries are likely to go through without any changes.
I wouldn't be that hopeful. Richmond-Queensborough is mostly a renamed Richmond Est, taking a small part of New Westminster (which isn't a very NDP part of it) and losing some parts in the western of the riding. It's probably still quite Liberal and you may still have Linda Reid, I fear.
