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Electoral Redistributions
By law, the boundaries of New England's sixty-seven parliamentry constituencies must be redrawn every eight years. This process of changing boundaries is known as a redistribution and involves a series of steps to gauge the most approaite form a redistribution will take and where the new boundaries will be located.
There have been seven redistrbutions in New England since elections were first held in 2011.
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Overview
The administration of redistributions is overseen by the Constituency Boundaries Commission of New England, which is a crown statutory agency whose commissioners appointed by the parliament. There are five commissioners who are appointed to serve for a single redistribution process. Generally, the commission is made up of the Chief Electoral Commissioner, the Clerk of the House of Assembly, the Surveyor-General, the Auditor-General, and a pusine justice of the Supreme Court.
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