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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.
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 the 93 provincial electoral districts (also informally known as ridings in Canadian English) of British Columbia, Canada, as defined by the 2021 electoral redistribution. These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British Columbia general election.
Canada's electoral system is a "first-past-the-post" system, which is formally referred to as a single-member plurality system. The candidate who receives the most votes in a riding, even if not a majority of the votes, wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its member of Parliament (MP).
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.
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.
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.