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*{{Color box|#ff9acd|border=darkgray}} Vancouver Island Party (0)
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  | voting_system1    = Mixed Member Proportional
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  | last_election1  = [[5th CMHoC General Election|February 19, 2020]]
  | last_election1  = [[5th CMHoC General Election|February 19, 2020]]
  | next_election1    = [[6th CMHoC General Election|April 12, 2020]]
  | next_election1    = [[6th CMHoC General Election|April 12, 2020]]

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House of Commons of Canada

Chambre des communes du Canada
5th Parliament
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Lower House
of the Parliament of Canada
Leadership
Speaker
AuroraHOC, Non-Affiliated
since January 5, 2020
TBD
since TBD
Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition
TBD
since TBD
Structure
Seats338
CND Parliament.png
Political groups
Her Majesty's Government (0)

Parties without official status (0)

  •   New Democratic Party (0)
  •   Conservative Party (0)
  •   Liberal Party (0)
  •   FNC (0)
  •   Freedom Party (0)
  •   Vancouver Island Party (0)
  •   Independent (0)
Elections
Party-List Proportional
Last election
February 19, 2020
Next election
April 12, 2020
Meeting place
The House of Commons sits in the West Block in Ottawa
House of Commons Chamber
West Block - Parliament Hill
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Website
www.reddit.com/r/cmhoc/

The House of Commons of Canada (French: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the only chamber in the Parliament of Canada. The House of Commons currently meets in a temporary Commons chamber in the West Block of the parliament buildings on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, while the Centre Block, which houses the traditional Commons chamber, undergoes a ten-year renovation.

The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as Members of Parliament (MPs). There were 25 members in the 1st to 3rd Parliament , but that number rose to 338 following the 4th election. Members are elected closed list-proportional system in each of the country's 32 electoral districts, which are colloquially known as ridings. MPs may hold office until Parliament is dissolved and serve for constitutionally limited terms of up to five years after an election. Historically however, terms have ended before their expiry and the sitting government has typically dissolved parliament within four years of an election according to a long-standing convention. In any case, an Act of Parliament now limits each term to four years.

Seats in the House of Commons are distributed roughly in proportion to the population of each province and territory. However, some ridings are more populous than others, and the Canadian constitution contains provisions regarding provincial representation. As a result, there is some interprovincial and regional malapportionment relative to the population.

The House of Commons was established in 1867, when the British North America Act (now called the Constitution Act, 1867) created the Dominion of Canada and was modelled on the British House of Commons.

Members and Ridings

The House of Commons comprises 338 members, each of whom represents one of the 32 multi member electoral districts (also called a riding). The constitution specifies a basic minimum of 295 electoral districts, but additional seats are allocated according to various clauses. Seats are distributed among the provinces in proportion to population, as determined by each decennial census, subject to the following exceptions made by the constitution. The districts number of seats range from 19 (Vancouver City) to 3 (Territories) and seats are distributed proportionally by using D'Hondt method.

In the last election, only 31 out of the 338 members of parliament were human MP's. By the rules, the remaining 307 members are NPC and vote in accordance to the influence of the human MP's. MP's have different amounts of influence depending on their roles and the size of their party, with parties with more MP's having less influence for each human MP.

Current Composition

Party Leader Seats %
New Democratic Nathan Cullen 154 45.5
Conservative Logan Flynn 107 31.7
Liberal Phillip Cain 65 19.2
P/FN Tekaronhió:ken d'Anson 7 2.1
Freedom Nick Panin 2 0.6
Independents n/a 3 0.9
 Total 338 100%