Editing Parliament of Canada (section)

===House of Commons===
{{Main|House of Commons of Canada}}
[[File:Ottawa - Parliament Hill - Commons.jpg|thumb|left|The [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]]]]
The elected component of the Canadian Parliament is the House of Commons ({{langx|fr|Chambre des communes|italic=unset}}), with each member chosen by a plurality of voters in each of the country's federal [[Electoral district (Canada)|electoral districts]], or ridings. To run for one of the 343<ref name="seats">[https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18bf3ea7-1940-46ec-af52-9ba3f77ed708 Canada, Open Government, "Federal Electoral Districts – Canada 2023", 2024.]</ref> seats in the House of Commons, an individual must be a Canadian citizen and at least 18 years old. Each member holds office until Parliament is dissolved, after which they may seek re-election. The ridings are regularly reorganized according to the results of each decennial national [[census]];<ref name=ElizabethIII.2>{{Citation |author = Queen Elizabeth II |author-link=Elizabeth II |publication-date=4 March 1986| title=Constitution Act, 1985 (Representation) |at=I.2 |publication-place=Ottawa |publisher=Queen's Printer for Canada |url=http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1985.html |access-date=19 October 2009 }}</ref> however, the "senatorial clause" of the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' guarantees each province at least as many MPs as it has senators,<ref>[https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/section-51A.html#docCont ''Constitution Act, 1867'', s. 51A.]</ref> and the "grandfather clause" permits each province as many MPs as it had in either 1976 or 1985.<ref name=ElizabethIII.2/> The existence of this legislation has pushed the size of the House of Commons above the required minimum of 282 seats.