With an election next year, the ACT Electoral Commission is reviewing the five electorates' boundaries based on population changes.

ACT Labor and the Canberra Liberals' submissions to the commission have both suggested removing an inner-south suburb from the electorate of Kurrajong and putting it in Murrumbidgee.

Labor suggested Red Hill while the Liberals said it should be Deakin.

They also both suggested Kambah be split with the east to stay in Murrumbidgee and the west in Brindabella.

The proposals would allow the seat of Murrumbidgee - which currently includes Woden and Weston Creek - and the seat of Brindabella - which includes Tuggeranong - to meet population quotas.

But suggestions to split Red Hill or Deakin have caught the ire of community groups who fear they would not be fairly represented in the Murrumbidgee seat.

Deakin Residents Association president George Wilson suggested the excising of Deakin or Red Hill would make political sense for each party respectively but it did not make geographical sense for Deakin.

Deakin produced the best result of any poll in the last territory election for the Liberal Party, with 57 per cent of first preference vote.

Mr Wilson said moving Deakin into Murrumbidgee would mean Deakin voters would lose traction on issues relevant to them.

"Deakin is a unique garden suburb with strong heritage issues similar to surrounding suburbs and unlike many of those in the Woden area; a major issue for Deakin is preservation of its historic garden suburb status," he said.

The Inner South Canberra Community Council chair Marea Fatseas urged Kurrajong not be split.

"There is a community of interest between the current inner-south suburbs, which would not be served by a change," she said.

"No compelling rationale has been provided for the proposed change in the boundaries."

Despite suggesting moving Red Hill to allow Murrumbidgee to reach its population target, Labor questioned whether the public interest of keeping Red Hill in Kurrajong was greater than the need to fulfil the quota.

"It is our view that the Commission should consider whether it is practicable to redistribute a single suburb from the electorate that incorporates its natural community of interest - Kurrajong - into an electorate with which it has very little relationship - Murrumbidgee," ACT Labor secretary Matthew Byrne said in the submission.

"We believe that this would create unnecessary confusion for the residents of whichever suburb is redistributed as to who their local representatives are.

"We think that this will create an inequity of representation for those residents in the inner south because they are unlikely to receive the same level of representation when placed in an electorate with which they have little connection.

"We believe that the costs to the local community outweigh the problem of Murrumbidgee falling 1.66 per cent below the projected quota threshold."

Weston Creek Community Council chair Tom Anderson also urged the commission to avoid moving Red Hill or Deakin into Murrumbidgee.

Instead, the council proposed further splitting up Kambah, with Kambah East and West to be located in Murrumbidgee, but 3,500 people from Kambah East be moved to Brindabella.

It also suggested moving Symonston, Beard, Oaks Estate, Hume and Jerrabomberra out of Kurrajong and into Brindabella.