Comment 9 – comments and feedback

Ted Darby

2022 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission

Eastern Ontario Realignment of Riding Boundaries

Hastings Lennox & Addington Alternative Riding Boundary Proposal

Submitted by: Ted Darby

Existing Federal Electoral District of Hastings Lennox & Addington

H-LA 2021

Population 100,636

Consisting of:

1. the County of Hastings;
2. the County of Lennox and Addington; and
3. that part of the City of Belleville lying northerly of Highway No. 401.

Proposed

• New Name - Hastings—Lennox and Addington—Tyendinaga
• Population: 111,331
• Consists of:
  1. that part of the City of Belleville lying northerly of Highway 401 (Macdonald-Cartier Freeway);
  2. the towns of Bancroft, Deseronto and Greater Napanee;
  3. the municipalities of Centre Hastings, Hastings Highlands, Marmora and Lake and Tweed;
  4. that part of the Municipality of Highlands East lying easterly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the northwesterly limit of said municipality with Highway 118; thence generally southeasterly along said highway to County Road 503; thence generally southwesterly along said road to Buckhorn Road; thence generally southerly along said road to the southerly limit of said municipality;
  5. the townships of Addington Highlands, Carlow/Mayo, Faraday, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, Limerick, Loyalist, Madoc, North Kawartha, Stirling-Rawdon, Stone Mills, Tudor and Cashel, Tyendinaga and Wollaston; and
  6. Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.

Proposed District Boundaries

• Current proposal adds a large geographic area to the north eastern area of the EDA which is sparsely populated.

Discussion

Proposed boundary change adds another 10K population, about 20% more area.

• Adds rural communities which do not have natural linkages to H-L&A or Kingston.
• Apsley & Havelock in different County – they relate to Peterborough.
• Proposal takes population away from new Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Brock which is over quota and gives to new H LA T which is under quota.

Recommended Alternative

Alternative-Push Northumberland western boundary north and change H-LA west

• Achieves desired population quota targets
• Keeps communities that naturally relate to each other, together.

Source: https://redecoupage-redistribution-2022.ca/com/on/prop/othaut/metb_e.aspx

Table 10A – Central East Ontario Existing Electoral Districts

Electoral Districts	Population – 2011	Deviation from Quota – 2012	Population – 2021	Deviation from Quota – 2022
Bay of Quinte	109,488	3.08%	116,016	-0.49%
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock	110,217	3.77%	122,401	4.98%
Hastings—Lennox and Addington	92,513	-12.90%	100,636	-13.68%
Northumberland—Peterborough South	107,840	1.53%	118,756	1.86%
Peterborough—Kawartha	115,264	8.52%	125,478	7.62%
Average	107,064	0.80%	116,657	0.06%
Range (most populous to least populous)	22,751	21.42 pp	24,842	21.30 pp