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This refers to the changes that are sometimes needed between electoral boundaries to ensure that each division has approximately the same number of voters in it. Sometimes this can effect the outcome of an election if it changes the social mix in a division, such as increasing or decreasing the number of rural or city areas within the division. Sitting members can find that their safe seat is now a marginal one.

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