Talk:2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution

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Questions still needing answers in the article

(1) When was the prior redistribution? How long, and for how many elections/Parliaments, had it been in force? On which year's census was the prior redistribution based?

According to http://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=http://publications.gc.ca/gazette/archives/p2/2003/2003-08-29-x/pdf/g2-137x6.pdf, it was in 2003. I've added a note but my reference citation is wrong, I wasn't sure how to use the template jlam (talk) 21:35, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(2) For the 338 districts under the new allocation, what is the estimated population of each listed district? What is the estimated number of eligible voters in each district (i.e. population excluding children, non-citizens, and others who are disqualified from voting in federal elections)?

(3) The seat allocations to each province are based on estimates derived from the 2006 Census, not the 2011 Census.[1] But within each province, were the district boundaries also set based on estimates deriving from the 2006 Census? Or was the 2011 Census used in determining the district boundaries within each province?

(4) Presumably, the allocation to each province was based on the 2006 census (or to be more accurate, on estimates as of July 2011, derived from the 2006 census) because it needed to be finalized in October/November 2011, before the results of the 2011 census had been tabulated. However, it's now 2015 and we do have the final results of the 2011 census. Are those results much different from the estimates (derived from the 2006 census) that were actually used? Would the allocation to any province have been different, if the 2011 census results could have been used, instead of the projections from the 2006 census?

(5) What is the "Representation Formula"?[2]

(6) What is the "representation rule", and what is its purpose? Various news articles talk about how it gives Quebec three extra seats, but the article should explain the purpose of this "representation rule" in a neutral way.[3][4]

(7) Some news articles, apparently based on an Elections Canada study, indicate that overall, the new redistribution is beneficial to the Conservatives. One figure reported is that if every voter votes the same way in 2015 as in 2011, "the Conservatives would pick up 22 of the 30 seats that are being added".[5][6][7] Is that summary basically accurate, or is it somewhat misleading? Also, if it is accurate, does it indicate gerrymandering? Or is it essentially a random effect?

(8) Is there other information from the Elections Canada website section [8] that belongs in the article? In particular, is there information from the FAQ [9] that should be added to the article?

--Mathew5000 (talk) 08:07, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]