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to be held on the basis of the 1981 boundaries. The bill would have also brought about a redistribution every five years in provinces where the shift in population warranted it, a new triggering mechanism for holding a decennial redistribution which would have eliminated an unnecessary redistribution
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obtained by dividing the provincial population as determined by the census by the new number of seats allocated to the province. No constituency is permitted to have a population smaller than 75% of the quotient or greater than 125%, although in extraordinary circumstances a commission may exceed
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specifies the population of and the name to be given to each district. The new boundaries cannot be used at the time of an election unless at least seven months have passed between the date the representation order was proclaimed and the date that
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in provinces without a significant change in population, and parliamentary oversight of appointments to electoral boundaries commissions. However, while it was passed by both houses of parliament, it ended up being subject to a dispute over amendments between the
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