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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.
This is a list of Canada's 338 electoral districts as defined by the 2013 Representation Order which first came into effect for the 2015 Canadian Federal Election on October 19, 2015. In most cases, provinces have been broken down into regions of a dozen or fewer districts; these are entirely unofficial and somewhat arbitrary.
The Ontario provincial electoral districts each elect one representative to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. [1] They are MPPs, Members of Provincial Parliament. Before 2025, these districts were coterminous with the federal electoral districts, based on the 2013 Representation Order as defined by Elections Canada .
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 ...
The provinces and territories are sometimes grouped into regions, listed here from west to east by province, followed by the three territories.Seats in the Senate are equally divided among four regions: the West, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes, with special status for Newfoundland and Labrador as well as for the three territories of Northern Canada ('the North').
In the United States, electoral districts for the federal House of Representatives are known as congressional districts (of which there are presently 435; the number can be changed but has remained at 435 since 1912, except for a brief period from 1959 to 1962 when two seats were temporarily added for the then-new States of Alaska and Hawaii ...
The term was used in the legal descriptions of the electoral districts of Canada West in the Province of Canada. It was later used in the description of the new electoral districts which were created by the Constitution Act, 1867 , for the first elections to the new federal House of Commons and the new provincial Legislative Assembly of Ontario ...
This is a list of the Canadian electoral districts used between 2013 and 2023. According to the 2023 Representation Orders, this list of electoral districts would be adopted for any general elections called before April 23, 2024. [1] During this period, the House of Commons of Canada had 338 seats. [2]