Fair Vote Canada

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Fair Vote Canada (FVC) is a multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting system reform. Canadians from all points on the political spectrum, all regions and all walks of life are joining FVC to demand a fair voting system - a fundamental requirement for healthy representative democracy and government accountability.

Latest News and Developments

News archive available here.

Labour Party promises referendum, but not on PR (September 29, 2009)

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he will hold an electoral reform referendum early in the next Parliament, if his government is re-elected in 2010. But rather than proposing proportional representation, Brown will put forward the Alternative Vote, another winner-take-all system with many of the same flaws as first-past-the-post. (See FVC paper on the Alternative Vote.)

Current turmoil in Ottawa is caused by winner-take-all voting system, says FVC (September 15, 2009)

The recent string of unstable governments and dysfunctional Parliaments are not surprising in a country using an 11th century voting system with structural incentives for all the wrong behaviours.

FVC paper outlines the case against the Alternatve Vote (AV) (August 9, 2009)

Today Fair Vote Canada released a paper on why the Alternative Vote (AV), sometimes called Instant Run-off Voting, is not a solution for Canada's democracy deficit. The paper documents how AV, another form of winner-take-all voting, fails to meet the key democratic principle of equal representation for every voter.

The Observer calls for "radical overhaul" of UK voting system (July 26, 2009)

Post-referendum poll in B.C. shows strong support for reform (July 8, 2009)

Those who defend the status quo will be deeply disappointed to learn that support for a fairer voting system is quite strong in British Columbia, according to a post-referendum poll commissioned by Fair Vote Canada.