At least 26 constituencies that were protected in the last boundaries review risk being scrapped, the electoral commission has warned. The commission, in its Boundaries Review plan unveiled on Wednesday, has increased the population quota from 133,000 to 164,015. The population quota is arrived at by dividing the national population of 47.5 million by 290 constituencies stipulated in the Constitution. Population density is arrived at dividing the county's total national population with its size of 540.876.3 square kilometres. The maximum provision of 40 per cent deviation from the population quota will only be used for the smallest counties with respect to population size in relation to the population quota.

Source: The Star June 24, 2021 02:03 UTC