2021 is the anniversary of three large events in Canada's Pro-rep story. * 100th Anniversary of United Farmers of Alberta government being elected on promise to bring in electoral reform, a promise fulfilled three years later.
* 50th anniversary of the last STV city election in Canada. Calgary elected 14 city councillors through STV, and then switched to FPTP for city elections. By that time, more than 54 years after the first STV city election, anyone old enough to have voted using X voting in a city election would have had to be 75 years old.
* 50th Anniversary of election of Lougheed's Progressive-Conservatives. Lougheed's Conservatives received windfall of seats under FPTP. With only 46 percent of the vote in 1971, his party took more than 60 percent of the seats. NDP received 11 percent of the vote but elected just one MLA (Grant Notley), instead of the nine MLAs it was due. Grant Notley of course was the father of Rachel Notley, the recent NDP premier in Alberta' history.
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