Canada election: How are federal electoral districts determined?

The 2019 federal election is underway and all parties have launched campaigns in their drive to be the next government of Canada.

Parliament was dissolved on Sept. 11, which gave the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP, the Greens, and the Bloc Quebecois 40 days to try to convince voters they are the right choice.

During elections, we always hear about which ridings we should be watching, or which ones are likely to vote for certain parties. But have you ever stopped to think how those ridings are formed in the first place?

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[soldierveteran]

Popular vote not ridings. 2 provinces decide the fate of our country? Ridiculous

[timothycai]

Our Senate shall be reformed: 1. All senators shall be elected instead of appointed (just like in U.S), it doe not make sense when they are paid and appointed...2. Each province or territory shall have 3 seats (this will balance regions across the country regardless of population size) 3. Election of Senate shall be on different date (midterm of incumbent terms) and hold elections of 2/3 of the senators every term 4. All ballots shall be secret by default (squeeze out the room for partisan votes and the role of the whip) 5. If over 1/3 of the senators disagree a bill or vote abstain, the bill shall be send back to the House of Commons with suggestions and recommendations for another round reading/revision but not killed. 6. Have the power to evaluate bills according to the constitution and revoke provincial regulations that was unconstitutional

Those are just my shallow thoughts on our representative democratic apparatus...

[FalconFlyer]

I definitely feel better about this than the US but I do have some misgivings about how the last election went, I mean Scheer won the popular vote (more canadians voted for him) yet Trudeau won the Minority

I didn't even vote for Scheer but I don't like this outcome I think if one party wins the popular vote and another wins the seats it should trigger a do over

this is why we need Ranked Voting or allow those who's parties were eliminated to vote again for one of the two finalists

[titanicbigship]

why do cities have their own electoral districts

[spencerdardon]

Alberta pays the bills for the country, gets shut down by the federal government on our resource that pays us and those bills, then they refuse to allow us to have the voice to make changes. EFF you ON and QB, time to separate.

[jesusmarin]

I knew it alberta is under represented ! And so is Saskatchewan

[justice]

Time to change the game for politicians.

[Jarsia]

while dividing ridings based on population might be the most democratic thing to do on paper, in a situation where one province represents almost 40% of the population, all it means it everyone else becomes irrelevant. Especially when you consider that most of quebec and the atlantic provinces vote liberal and most of the prairies vote conservative, effectively balancing each other out, then Ontario becomes the only province anyone really fights for. BC's fairly large seat count tends to discount itself by splitting the seats among the 3 parties, and bloc and NDP seats realistically only narrow the playing field for Cons and libs. The rest of Canada is neglected because Ontario has an electoral monopoly.

I'd have 360 ridings, with 1/3 being allotted based on province population, 1/3 being allotted based on province's percentage of the GDP, and 1/3 being a base allotment. The territories will get 10 seats(4 for NWT, and 3 for Nunavut and Yukon each), and the provinces all get 11. That gives us the following....
Alberta 44
BC 43
Manitoba 19
New Brunswick 16
NF & Lab 15
NWT 4
Nova Scotia 16
Nunavut 3
Ontario 103
PEI 11
Quebec 64
Saskatchewan 19
Yukon 3

While Ontario and Quebec are still the 2 biggest provinces in seat count, political representation it pushed out from the center to the rest of the country, which will force political parties to consider the concerns of ALL canadians and not just Ontario and to a degree Quebec.

The only realistic way to get a prime minister for ALL canadians is to make it so that they need all canadians to win an election, not just those in the GTA and other major Ontario and Quebec cities.

[Johnjohnny]

Y’all need to stand up for yourself that’s a awful way to live in tyranny you don’t have a voice

[leslovesliberty]

Wow, no wonder Canadians have no individual freedoms... scary!!

[jl]

Vote PPC. Mad Max will make things fairer if we demand it

[pandeyji]

Don't vote for humble request for you...my fellow canadians..

[soldierveteran]

A minority or a woman and youre a candidate