Original sentence: Currently, districts have a mean population of 50,000.If the BC-STV system is approved, an Electoral Boundaries Commission would be charged with designing new electoral districts.Much larger districts will be created that will return multiple members, proponents argue that this would create districts with a stronger sense of community and common interest.One of the criticisms of this method of is that in many populous communities, in order to create districts with a population of approximately 50,000, it may be necessary to draw arbitrary boundaries which do not necessarily reflect a community of interest.The agency charged with the administration of elections, Elections BC, uses census data to determine what the mean population of districts should be and districts are drawn accordingly.The general ratio of one MLA per 50,000 residents would remain as this figure would be used to determine the number of MLAs elected by a district.Whereas British Columbia currently elects members from 79 one-member districts, it is necessary to attempt to have a uniform population across districts to give voters equal weight
Edited sentence: As the population grew the boundaries occasionally divided towns.Elections BC uses census data to maintain electoral districts with approximately equal population numbers (about 50,000) in each district.Electoral districts were established around these population centres.If the BC-STV system is approved by voters the Electoral Boundaries Commission would be charged with redistributing the electoral districts.The current FPTP system was established in B.The current electoral districts will be merged or re-assembled so that the borders co-incide with meaningful boundaries.The general ratio of one MLA per 50,000 residents will likely be kept so that more populous district will be represented by more MLAs.These border are usually down the centerlines of roads, not that the roads specifically mean anything but rather they are just convienent.Today, after decades of suburbanization, most electoral boundaries divide the population of towns and cities along arbitrary borders.in the 19th century when there were large areas of uninhabited land between population centres