by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document A widely-supported option for Canada Internationally, MMP has been used in Germany since the mid-1940s, in New Zealand since 1994, and for parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales since 1999. In 1998, the Jenkins...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document History of STV in Canada Most Canadians don’t know that STV has a distinguished history of use in Canada over the past century. In fact, it’s the only form of PR that has ever been used here and in our...
by Anita Nickerson | Aug 19, 2016 | ERRE Submissions
Click here for the PDF version of this document Balancing Trade-offs for a Win-Win Solution Overview Electoral reformers in Canada have espoused two main ways of increasing the proportionality of our electoral system: the use of top-up seats to compensate for the...