Report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Québec, 2012 : Redistribution, federal electoral districts = : Redécoupage, circonscriptions fédérales

The 2011 decennial census established the population of the province of Quebec at 7,903,001. The province of Quebec had 75 electoral districts on December 16, 2011, before the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) calculated the number of House of Commons seats to be allocated to each province. That calculation, made using the representation formula found in the Constitution and the population estimates provided by Statistics Canada, brought to 78 the number of federal electoral districts for Quebec: 72 seats were allocated pursuant to the initial calculation made under the Constitution Act, 1867, 3 pursuant to the grandfather clause, and 3 pursuant to the representation rule. Dividing the population number for the province of Quebec by 78 results in an electoral quota of 101,321 residents per electoral district, compared with 96,500 in 2001. ... After research and reflection, the Commission's first act was to submit, with supporting reasons, a proposal recommending new electoral boundaries based on the province's population numbers and the quota resulting from the division of the province into 78 electoral districts. That proposal sought to elicit the representations of all interested persons who wished to be heard at public hearings, and any other comments made in writing or in any other format deemed acceptable by the Commission.