by Fair Vote Canada | May 30, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
First-past-the-post has delivered an exaggerated majority for Danielle Smith’s UCP in Alberta. The party won 56% of the seats with 52.6% of the vote. The map of the results shows exaggerated regional differences:In the 13 ridings of Northern Alberta, UCP voters cast...
by Fair Vote Canada | May 6, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
Picture: Jer Clarke/ (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) licence The Liberal Party of Canada has voted to back a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform at their national policy convention. BE IT RESOLVED that the Liberal Party of Canada urge the Government of Canada to...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 29, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Surrey’s costly police transition saga was caused in part by the flawed voting systems imposed by the Province on municipalities. Doug McCallum won the Surrey mayor’s seat in 2018 with a lower share of the vote than when he lost to Dianne Watts in 2005. With that weak...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
PR campaigners in the Yukon are one step closer to a major breakthrough for electoral reform that could resonate across the country. Over the past three months, Yukon’s all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform worked with Statistics Yukon to send a survey to...
by Fair Vote Canada | Apr 3, 2023 | FVC News, Uncategorised
First-past-the-post has handed Dennis King’s Progressive Conservatives 81% of the seats with 56% of the popular vote. The Green Party received 21.6% voter support, but Green voters received only 2 (7%) of the seats. The Liberal Party received 17% voter support, but...
by Fair Vote Canada | Mar 9, 2023 | Blog, FVC News, Uncategorised
Canadians worried about foreign interference in our elections need to know that our decrepit voting system makes us particularly vulnerable. Canada’s winner-take-all voting system turns the nefarious efforts of foreign actors into a highly rewarding endeavor. SWING...
