If this occurred it would mean people living in Prospect Vale, Blackstone Heights and Hadspen would vote in the same electorate as residents from Bridgewater, Brighton, St Helens and Sheffield.

Every seven years a redistribution process is required to account for differing rates of growth and each electorate must meet a quota based on population projections to 2021.

The Australian Electoral Commission’s original proposal suggested moving the Dorset and Flinders Island municipalities from Bass and into Lyons.

This suggestion was strongly opposed by members of the Dorset community and the council.

An inquiry into the objections surrounding the redistribution heard Dorset had a strong connection to Launceston and not with communities within Lyons.

Mayor Greg Howard said the new proposal, which allows Dorset to remain in Bass, was a better fit.

“There was just no way that we should have been part of Lyons,” he said.

The mayor of the Meander Valley Council had a different view, calling the suggestion “ridiculous”.

“An interesting thing to me is that from a communities of interest point of view Bass should remain the way it is,” Cr Craig Perkins said.

“The electoral commission has created Macintyre, this huge sweeping legislative council boundary and the [new proposal] is almost in conflict with this as its rationale.”

Councillor Andrew Connor said the change would cut off Meander Valley’s urban residents from logical representation.

“Urban areas of Meander Valley have a more substantial social and economic connection to greater Launceston which sits in Bass, than the vast rural areas of Lyons,” he said.

Due to the recommendation being “significantly different from the proposal of the redistribution committee” it requires further input from members of the community.