alt Hacker NewsComment 2: I have actually had the same idea as you in a slightly different context. My country is in urgent need of creating new smaller provinces by dividing the existing ones. But there is wide disagreement on what the boundaries should be.
One method would be to decide the capitals of the new provinces, and then ask people in each district which province they would most like to join. If there is contiguous land to the winning provincial capital for every district, then the solution just pops out.
Replies
bluGill • yesterday at 2:14 PM
Borders should be simple - either natural geography (rivers) or squares that are some fixed increment of a km.
➕ show 1 reply
Why does it need smaller provinces? For voting reasons or other reasons?
You can separate the political and the voting districts, at least when you are voting on higher levels.
Also there is a question if you want to expand the current system (ie more provinces), or if you want to add a new layer into the chain (ie sub-provinces). Both can be good depending on what you want to achieve.
Britain is currently introducing new layers. They have new district mayors for new major regions.
But Britain is quite strange in how their system works, mostly because they has not been a real revolution for 800 years.