Our new electoral districts are:
Avalon (Population: 81,540)
Bonavista—Burin—Trinity (Population: 76,704)
Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame (Population: 78,092)
Labrador (Population: 26,728)
Long Range Mountains (Population: 87,592)
St. John's East (Population: 81,936)
St. John's South—Mount Pearl (Population: 81,944)
In rural Newfoundland, this is a tremendous improvement.
The west coast used to be split between Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte and Random—Burin—St. George's. They've brilliantly included in this district portions of the south coast that have no roads or vehicles but are linked by ferry to Burgeo via Ramea. Long Range Mountains now actually groups together comparable regions that operate a cohesive unit in daily life.
This was especially problematic in the latter, which included towns relative close to St. John's as well as those on the opposite side of the island, with completely different economies, needs, etc.
However, Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame still combines very different communities that are isolated from each other and don't share much in common. However, it is tolerable because road access to the south coast of this portion of the island is only possible using the Coast of Bays Highway. That lines the southern and northern coasts of this district.
In St. John's, it's still nonsensical:
Neither of the St. John's ridings include the city's suburbs and the dividing line between the two makes little sense.
But, whatever.
And a small naming WTF: They tried to change St. John's East to St. John's North, which it is, but no one says that. For us, it's the East End.
Yet they kept St. John's South in the name of the other district... which is a phrase no one says, ever. It's the West End.