2017 Edmonton city election flawed due to ward system

Edmonton city elections are conducted in 12 separate electoral contests.

This division into 12 different contests, and the division of the voters into 12 different sections, means that:

many votes are wasted --- more than half the votes did not elect anyone

many voters are disregarded --- more than half the voters did not see their choice elected

some voters cannot vote for whom they want to see on city council because they happen to live in a different ward,

it does not produce the election of the most popular candidates -- those who get more votes than others may not be elected.

This list of the 21 people who received the most votes in the 2017 elections -- yes elections, as there was not just one but 12 separate contests -- showed how unfair the election system is -

a person who received 5282 votes was not elected while a person who received 3455 was.

2017 Edmonton city election

Candidates in order of popularity:
[any who received more than 3400 votes]
Michael Walters 11,678          Ward 10  (elected)
Andrew Knack  10,091 	        Ward 1   (elected)
Tim Cartmell 9160 		Ward 9   (elected)
Mike Nickel 9148 		Ward 11  (elected)
Scott McKeen 7774 		Ward 6   (elected)
Bev Esslinger 7475  		Ward 2   (elected)
Moe Banga 6636 		        Ward 12  (elected)
Ben Henderson 6235 		Ward 8   (elected)
Sarah Hamilton 6156 		Ward 5   (elected)
Vieri Berretti 5282 		Ward 10
Bill Knight 4958 		Ward 6
Rob Agostinis 4763 		Ward 9
Karen Tang 4361 		Ward 11
Jon Dziadyk 4354 		Ward 3   (elected)
Tony Caterina 4017 		Ward 7   (elected)
Kirsten Goa 3890 		Ward 8
Dave Loken 3890 		Ward 3
Kris Andreychuk 3852 	        Ward 7
David Xiao 3626 		Ward 5
Sandy Pon 3480 		        Ward 9
Aaron Paquettee 3455 	        Ward 4   (elected).
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These are all reasons why the FPTP in 12 separate wards needs to be changed -- we need to establish multi-member wards or at-large elections and each voter casting only one vote each, so 
-- a much smaller portion of the votes are all that is wasted
-- a great proportion of the voters see their choice elected
-- fewer voters are separated from their preferred candidates due to ward boundaries
-- those who are more popular than others are elected while those with fewer votes are not.

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