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The Electoral Boundaries Committee (1974-1975)

Membership

The Electoral Boundaries Committee consisted of the following:

• Edward Clark, MLA, Belmont Lot 16
• Lloyd MacPhail, MLA, New Haven
• Addie MacDonald, MLA, Charlottetown
• Leo Rossiter, MLA, Morell
• Arthur MacDonald, MLA, Little Pond.

The members were appointed to the Electoral Boundaries Sub-Committee as follows:

• Edward Clark, MLA, Belmont Lot 16, Co-Chair
• Lloyd MacPhail, MLA, New Haven, Co-Chair
• G. Lorne Monkley, Charlottetown, Chief Electoral Officer
• Wayne MacKinnon, , Charlottetown, Assistant director, P.E.I. Heritage Foundation
• Arthur Farquharson, Sherwood, Sub-Committee Secretary

Recommendations

The Sub-Committee reviewed the electoral boundaries, the number of districts per county and the naming of electoral districts. The Committee made the following recommendations to the Legislative assembly on November 14, 1974:

• the present sixteen provincial electoral districts be replaced by thirty-two provincial electoral districts;
• the recommended thirty-two provincial electoral districts be generally bound by the proposed federal electoral districts;
• the present provincial electoral system of numbering by county be replaced by the representative community names either singular or two-fold;
• the redistribution of provincial polling divisions showing descriptions which may be more properly identified;
• the terms Councillor and Assemblyman be abolished and replaced by the term Member of the Legislative Assembly for more proper identification; and
• on the basis of the seven public hearings and from communications received by the sub-committee, it was considered that each electoral district should return one representative and that the present number of elected representatives remain at thirty-two.
• the proposed federal electoral constituency of Hillsborough return five representatives and that the proposed federal electoral constituencies of Egmont, Malpeque and Cardigan each return nine representatives.

The Electoral Boundaries Committee reviewed the sub-committee report and on April 16, 1975 recommended the following:

On April 16, 1975, the Report of the Electoral Boundaries Committee was received and tabled in the Legislative Assembly. On May 1, 1975 following debate, the chairman reported that the Committee of the Whole House did not adopt the report of the Electoral Boundaries Committee. None of the recommendations were incorporated into legislation.