Most Edmontonians will vote in new or newly-redrawn ridings in the next provincial election if the recommendations contained in the interim report from the Electoral Boundaries Commission are put into force.

The commission’s 214-page report was tabled in the legislature late Tuesday. It outlines how Alberta’s electoral map could be redrawn to add two more seats, up to 89, as per government legislation last November that attempts to account for the province’s rapidly growing population.

One of those extra seats will go to Edmonton with the other going to Calgary amid dozens of other constituencies across Alberta that are recommended to be redrawn, with the boundaries of only nine constituencies being unaffected by the report’s recommended changes.

The number of Edmonton seats would gr

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