Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015)

Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by dghughes on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:38PM (#21559267)

Here in Prince Edward Island (PEI) Canada the province is 5,660 square kilometers with a population of about 150,000 people.

Nunavut, Yukon and NWT combined have a land area of almost 4 million square kilometers and a population of about 120,000 people.

PEI has four members of parliament (MP) the three territories combined have three members. Population-wise it works out but the land difference is so crazy. I think Canada should be all PEI-size provinces.

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Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by soperj on Sunday November 17, 2019 @02:08PM (#21559423)

PEI has an outsized number of MPs for their population though. Comparatively, Alberta gets 1 MP for each 120,000 people.

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Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by flycaliguy on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:19PM (#21559833)

Some sort of home ice advantage I assume.

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Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by dghughes on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:33PM (#21559909)

32 years older than Alberta. First dibs for the older brother.

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Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by soperj on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:49PM (#21560255)

Neither. There's a clause that you can't have less seats than you did in 1985. Alberta's & Canada's population have grown much more than the 25000 people that PEI's has.

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Re:Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District (2015) by throwaway2048 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @01:55PM (#21559355)

there are a huge number of land areas in Canada that are PEI sized that contain literally zero permanent population.

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