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Canada a laggard on making 'hung Parliaments' work - Hill Times (subscription)
Canada a laggard on making 'hung Parliaments' workHill Times (subscription)But critics of proportional representation point out that Canadians aren't interested in that kind of electoral reform, even in a minority government era in ...
Marginal wooing costs too much - The Australian
Marginal wooing costs too much
The Australian
Could it be time for Australia to introduce proportional representation? The direct effect of PR would be to lead to parliamentary outcomes that more ...
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Exploring other options, Norwegian-style - ABC Online
ABC Online
Exploring other options, Norwegian-style
ABC Online
After more than 30 years of unstable minority governments, partly due to the political fragmentation produced by the country's proportional representation ...
Time to hear majority - Edmonton Journal
Time to hear majorityEdmonton JournalThe editorial incorrectly assumed that because referendums on electoral reform in BC and Ontario did not pass that voters in those provinces support the ...
Fix the democracy, not the election date - Times and Transcript
Fix the democracy, not the election date
Times and Transcript
The main focus revolved around a recommendation to inject proportional representation into the current first-past-the-post electoral system. ...
Exhausting effort to break majors' democratic duopoly - Sydney Morning Herald
Exhausting effort to break majors' democratic duopoly
Sydney Morning Herald
How about a reform of the electoral system towards proportional representation, where the will of the people is actually reflected in the make-up of the ...
Why don't voters go to the polls? - Town Crier Newspapers
Why don't voters go to the polls?
Town Crier Newspapers
Fair Vote Canada advocates for proportional representation (PR) because they allow for the majority of votes to count. While people often think of PR in ...
Charlottetown voters will participate in plebiscite on possible electoral reform - Charlottetown, The Guardian
Charlottetown voters will participate in plebiscite on possible electoral reformCharlottetown, The GuardianIn addition to voting for a mayor and councillor, voters will be asked to participate in a plebiscite on possible electoral reform. ...
Is it still a democracy if your vote doesn't count? - ABC Online
Is it still a democracy if your vote doesn't count?
ABC Online
Proportional representation in the Senate is merely a side show to the real game of who will form government because government is formed in the House of ...
Australian Greens' high hopes for polls - BBC News
Australian Greens' high hopes for polls
BBC News
Analysts are predicting that a system of proportional representation will, for the first time, hand the party the balance of power in the upper house of ...
Labour to oppose electoral reform bill - New Statesman
Labour to oppose electoral reform billNew StatesmanShadow cabinet decides to oppose bill because voting reform is unnecessarily tied in with boundary changes. The Labour shadow cabinet has decided to vote ...and more »
Good gov't should start here - Edmonton Journal
Good gov't should start here
Edmonton Journal
Let's make sure they never get proportional representation, which gives citizens effective votes. No, let's scare them with nonsense about powerful ...
For Tories, STV is the answer - The Guardian
For Tories, STV is the answerThe GuardianImmediately after Nick Clegg announced a referendum on electoral reform, veteran Tory MPs stood up in the Commons to denounce it. They should be angry. ...
A proportional system should be on offer in next year's referendum - New Statesman (blog)
A proportional system should be on offer in next year's referendumNew Statesman (blog)The Single Transferrable Vote, backed by the admirable Electoral Reform Society, is far the best option. As plans for a proposed referendum on the ...
AV is not the only vote - The Guardian
AV is not the only voteThe GuardianWhen the likely date for the referendum on electoral reform was leaked by Nick Clegg as 5 May next year, I immediately posed the "French Ambassador has ...and more »
OPINION: Stop Talking About Coalitions - CityNews
OPINION: Stop Talking About CoalitionsCityNewsLet's stop the talk about mergers and monolithic parties and start addressing electoral reform. After all, the combined forces of the Liberals and NDP can ...and more »
British election should spur discussion on better voting system - Edmonton Journal
British election should spur discussion on better voting system
Edmonton Journal
But from all this, there is hope: adopting a proportional representation voting system would go a long way to addressing this problem. ...