 The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census.Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.Prior to the 2018 provincial election, the Ontario government's Far North Electoral Boundaries Commission proposed dividing Kenora—Rainy River into one riding for the urbanized southern portion of the current district, which will retain the name Kenora—Rainy River, and one riding for the predominantly Indigenous northern portion of the current district, to be named Kiiwetinoong.