Parliament and Representation: The Unfinished Agenda of Electoral Redistributions

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Political Science
• Main Author: Courtney, John C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1988
• Subjects: Sociology and Political Science; Northwest Territories; Carr
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423900057395; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008423900057395

Abstract Since 1964, federal electoral boundary readjustments have been the responsibility of independent commissions—one for each province and one for the Northwest Territories. The three redistributions completed to date under the new arrangements suggest that the commissions have increasingly acc...