Toronto may lose a seat in Parliament with the changes proposed by federal redistricting.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Toronto’s ridings would fall in number from 25 to 24; the commissioners have proposed eliminating the riding of Scarborough-Agincourt.Advertisement 3Toronto’s population grew seven percent in the last 10 years, to 2.8 million.Liberals swept all 25 Toronto ridings in the 2021 federal campaign with 51 percent of the popular vote.
In the last federal election the Liberals won all 25 of the most urban ridings in Canada and 109 of the top 150 most urban ridings.this reflects a growing split in party supporters — with the Liberal party support becoming more urban and Conservative more rural.Article content The Boundaries Commission has also proposed eliminating a riding in northern Ontario, Timmins-James Bay. It is currently held by seven-term New Democrat MP Charlie Angus.
Most of the constituency would be merged with the Kenora district into a very large 520,300 square kilometre constituency renamed Kiiwetinoong-Mushkegowuk.Ontario overall would gain one federal seat to 122 under redistricting. “One additional riding has been added to central Ontario, eastern Greater Toronto and northern Greater Toronto,” wrote the Commission.reports that proposed redrawing of constituencies in other provinces would see one Quebec MP lose her seat, Bloc Quebecois MP Kristina Michaud .British Columbia would gain one new seat, Vernon-Lake Country, in the
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