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A Different Way of Voting -- Manitoba's STV 1920-1953

Dual Member Plurality is not proportional - we can do better! Pilon's Politics of Voting...

STV is family of voting systems not just a single system - Canada would benefit from STV/MMP system

2019 Alberta election - vast shifts in seats caused by small 15-percent shift in votes

Ontario uses federal districts for provincial districts. No gerrymandering!

Edmonton's PR record shows that PR works

40 percent of Canadians vote same anywhere. Let's have representation that shows this!

Montopedia blogs on history published in early 2021

Two-thirds of voters did not vote for elected MP in some districts in 2019

William Newton, Edmonton's pioneer Anglican missionary

Manitoba's 1922 STV provincial election -- Back-up preferences pivotal to election of Winnipeg MLAs

No government without representation! We must have pro-rep

The Dual-Member Proportional system

STV the British form of PR - and the Canadian form of PR at least historically

New York City elections uses Alternative Voting

Electoral systems have four goals - Canada's First Past The Post system pursues just two

Alberta's 1955 election - Canada's last provincial election to use PR -- in brief

The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association hands out mis-information

Folk memory of Holdomor (Ukrainian famine)

Canada one of few countries in world to just use FPTP