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Cities' use of STV Proportional Representation here and elsewhere

Tom Monto

Ralph Borsodi's Seventeen Problems of Society and Man (1968), specifically his examination of political problems -- representation, elections

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Alberta to vote on secession in 2026? A tale of two votes? (Mill Woods Mosaic Feb 2026)

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Alberta Oct. 19 2026 referendum - Premier Danielle Smith will try to get support for UCP government blaming new arrivals, immigrants for its record in providing less-than-quality core services

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Pantheon of Reformers - William McDougall, editor of the reform rag North American

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PR best route to electoral integrity, and other information from the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems (2018)

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U.S. electoral systems -- anachronistic, dis-proportional, locked in two-party straitjacket at least for now -- but room for reform

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The Co-operative Commonwealth was defined when the CCF party was founded in Calgary in 1932

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Electoral systems matter

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Canadian use of STV and IRV partial and tentative but STV effective where used in Alberta and Manitoba, says Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems

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Ireland STV not much in need of reform, says the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems

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Electoral nomenclature Naming electoral systems for clarity

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Responsible government must mean more than a 4.5 percent ruling block. But under FPTP, as few as 4.5 percent of voters is all you need to win a majority in an assembly -- hardly responsible!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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