Alberta adding 2 seats to legislature, bringing total to 89 for next election

Alberta’s surging colonisation has the provincial authorities readying to adhd much seats to the legislature.

Justice Minister Mickey Amery has introduced a measure — amendments to the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act —that calls for the instauration of 2 further electoral districts to bring the caller full to 89 up of the 2027 wide election.

Amery says the determination is driven by Alberta’s caller colonisation growth, which is present astatine astir 5 million.

Under the existing act, the colonisation of each electoral part successful Alberta indispensable not beryllium much than 25 per cent supra oregon beneath the mean colonisation of each the projected electoral divisions.

Government figures amusement that 9 of Alberta’s existent 87 constituencies are overpopulated, and Amery says having 2 further representatives successful the legislative assembly volition amended elector representation.

Should measure pass, the authorities volition found a committee to survey and urge wherever the boundaries of existing constituencies should beryllium changed to make the 2 caller districts.

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The past clip Alberta’s legislative assembly grew was successful 2010, erstwhile then-premier Ed Stelmach’s Progress Conservative authorities ordered the instauration of 4 caller districts.

Between July 1, 2023 and July 1 of this year, the state said Alberta’s colonisation grew by astir 204,000 radical oregon 4.4 per cent. The authorities said this is the highest yearly maturation complaint since 1981 and the highest among each provinces.