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This is a list of Canada's 338 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2013 Representation Order. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to House of Commons of Canada every election. Provincial electoral districts often have names ...
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a circonscription but frequently called a comté . In Canadian English it is also colloquially and more commonly known as a riding or constituency.
Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non-coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the Southern Ontario region are coterminous while those in Northern Ontario are not.
Manitoba's provincial electoral boundaries are reviewed every 10 years by the Manitoba Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission. [2]The Commission was established on March 31, 1955, with The Electoral Divisions Act, which sets out the composition of the Commission.
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Canada's first recorded election was held in Halifax in 1758 to elect the 1st General Assembly of Nova Scotia. [1] All Canadian citizens aged 18 or older who currently reside in Canada as of the polling day [2] (or at any point in their life have resided in Canada, regardless of time away) may vote in federal elections. [3]
Surrey City Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding will first be contested in the 2024 British Columbia general election. [1]
A Canadian postal code (French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [1] Like British , Irish , and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric .