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Originally Posted by adamuptownsj
Thanks for the numbers, but there's certainly a lot of fluctuation within the city, so provided the people moving are Canadian citizens of majority age (which could complicate things), Portland-Simonds must shrink, and the easiest way for it to shrink is to give territory to East.
I'd kind of consider it general discussion- until the 90s central Saint John anchored two districts and is certainly on track to have an even smaller and denser district now. It's got to lose like 1,000 people. How many people even live east of City Line anyway?
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I don't consider it on topic for Uptown SJ, so i'll continue this here.
We don't have enough data on the population growth as yet to make any discernible predictions outside of merely guessing. It's fair to say that with Northern NB either declining or stagnating, and with Southern and Central NB now growing at pretty good rates, that a Northern riding will have to shift to Moncton. It's possible that it ends up as a Shediac riding but I haven't crunched any numbers yet. It's also possible that many urban ridings have to tighten and shrink to accommodate for growing pops but it depends on their growth and quotas. Because SJ is growing at provincial rate I doubt very many changes are made aside from cosmetic changes - a few metres here, maybe a few blocks here or there.