The commission says the proposed ridings would be in “areas of rapid population growth,” specifically Vancouver, Burnaby, Langley, Surrey and Kelowna, along with Langford, the fastest-growing city on Vancouver Island.
It is currently part of the Langford-Juan De Fuca riding, famously the home riding of B.C. Premier John Horgan, and includes Highlands, Sooke, East Sooke and the rural area between Sooke and Port Renfrew.
Under the proposed changes, Langford would continue to share a riding with Highlands, while the Juan de Fuca area would join up with the Malahat riding. Other changes would include Vic West moving into a renamed Esquimalt-Colwood riding, and Brentwood Bay would move to Saanich North and the Islands. Here is Vancouver Island, which would gain a new riding as well as new names for several ridings in and around Nanaimo and Langford.