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Timeline of Electoral Reform, Part 1 Beginnings to 1919. Chronology of Proportional Representation (STV, List PR, MMP)

Tom Monto

Timeline of Montopedia blogs on Electoral Reform

Tom Monto

Intentional communities in Canada and U.S. -- utopian, socialist, single tax, temperance, religious, free love communities and settlements

Tom Monto

Multi-Member Districts --Canada used multi-member districts federally and in the provinces and territories -- UK and USA also used them (Part 1)

Tom Monto

Highlights of Montopedia blogs and List of Montopedia blogs concerning electoral reform

Tom Monto

Responsible government must mean more than a 4.5 percent ruling block. But under FPTP, as few as 4.5 percent is all that is needed to establish a majority in an elected assembly -- hardly responsible!

Tom Monto

Referendums as route to electoral reform -- not often Canberra and NZ stand out as successes

Tom Monto

Only PR ensures majority power rests on majority of voters -- Edmonton FPTP elections versus Wellington STV city elections

Tom Monto

Edward Gibbon Wakefield 1796-1862 -- reformer and original thinker on proper colonial administration, in Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Tom Monto

Political Freedom did not calm discontent, in fact strengthened it - in Old Canada

Tom Monto

Glennis Industrial Colony, Washington State -- an interesting short-lived Socialist community based on Bellamy's Nationalist principle, 1895-1896

Tom Monto

1832 Bank Run in Britain produced political reform, said Author John T. Hull, employee of Manitoba Wheat Pool

Tom Monto

Primer on Alberta Election Systems 1905-2026 Provincial - Edmonton - Calgary - Lethbridge

Tom Monto

Threshold -- how do they boil down?

Tom Monto

PR's allies among its government leaders and population - real, imagined and potential

Tom Monto

2025 Edmonton is site of demonstration PR event - Candies were the candidates - Stickies worked

Tom Monto

Types of STV used in Canada, U.S. Malta, Ireland and Australia

Tom Monto

STV can ensure representation of women or residents of a particular part of a district - UK Building Societies, City of Edmonton had guaranteed seats

Tom Monto

Election Oddities - the running, the voting, the electing -- the odd and the quaint of past Canadian elections

Tom Monto

Upton Sinclair's 1923 utopian novel Millennium portrays a post-apocalyptic world where most survivors form a Co-operative Commonwealth

Tom Monto

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