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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
If you look at the federal and provincial levels of government we get 1 MP or MPP per 100,000 population, give or take, so I don't see why we would need 1 councilor per 40,000 people. We should reduce the number of councilors to 1 per 50,000 which would give us about 11, plus the mayor. There is absolutely no reason why the citizens can't be well represented by councilors who have constituencies of 50,000.
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If you treat Vancouver's councillors as surrogate wards, the above sample of Canada's nine largest cities works out to an average ward population of around 66,000.
If you factor in Brampton's bi-ward councillors, the above sample of Canada's nine largest cities works out to an average population of roughly 73,000 per councillor.
Hamilton, meanwhile, comes in at around half that.