Overall no party got majority of votes in the 2024 BC election,
And no party took a majorty of seats so at least that is fair.
Leading party, the NDP, got the most seats but not a majority of seats.
Greens with two seats (the product of 8 percent of the vote, which should have given the party 7 seats) hold balance of power.
The Conservatives and the NDP are both just one or two seats short of majority.
Likely Greens will give support to the NDP, and hopefully IMO they will demand proportional representation.
And bring in PR without a referendum -
Making electoral change without referendum is the same process by which BC got FPTP/Block voting in 1950s and the same process by which BC went to straight FPTP in 1990s.
Such a move would be a late but still fair response to the 2005 referendum when a majority of votets did vote for STV.
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PR could be as simple as voters in cities could be grouped to make multi-member districts, using the whole city - even Vancouver only has 12 MLAs.
and settled rural districts could be joined together to make three-seat districts.
BC had extensive experience of using multi-member districts in past.
leaving largest sparely-settled districts as single-member districts.
Give each voter one vote, and allow voters to mark back-up preferences.
STV in MMDs would produce fair balanced representation and ensure that a large proportion of votes are used to elect someone.
instant-Runoff Voting in rural SMDs would not do much but would ensure that voters there used same voting system as voters in cities.
Simple as that.
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The recent BC election meanwhile was conducted using FPTP, and the results show how chaotic the result and how limited the democratic accountability.
Here's some analysis of the 2024 BC election
Of 93 elected MLAs, 36 were elected by minority of votes in their district, as few as 36 percent of the vote in one case.
(Majority winners indicated by bold in district breakdown list below)
Ten Conservatives were elected in districts where NDP and Green party together took more votes.
(indicated by italics in list below)
Despite the single-member district being meant to be same size with the idea that each winner would represent the same number of voters, there was great range in voter turnout, in winners' vote percentages and winners' vote tallies.
Winners' vote percentages ranged from 36 percent to 74 percent.
Winners' vote tally ranged from 4875 to more than three times as much -- 17,000.
Voter turnout in districts ranged from almost 34,000 to less than 8000.
With winners elected with different vote counts, that the two leading parties each got a seat share about in line, at least relative to each other, is little short of a miracle.
About half the valid votes (52 percent) were used to elect the winners.
Almost half the valid votes did not elect anyone.
Specifically 1,059,461 votes were used to elect the 93 winners.
978,614 votes did not elect anyone.
2M valid votes in total -- 2,038,075
Both the NDP and the Conservative elected a member for each 20,000 votes cast for the party's candidates.
The Green Party elected a member for each 83,000 votes cast for the party's candidates.
The fact that many districts share names shows that existing communities on the gound were split by the boundaries of the 93 districts, which are arbitrary and un-natural.
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Here's the district breakdown.
WINNER'S District
Party label Vote tally percent valid votes
Abbotsford-M Conservative 13,254 56 23,812
Abbotsford S Conservative 12,853 62 20,754
Abbotsford-W Conservative 11,225 59 19,087
Boundary Conserv. 11,729 48 24,193 (Conserv. tally just more than NDP + Green)
Bulkley Conservative 4875 52 9301
Burnaby C NDP 9413 57 16,533
Burnaby E NDP 10,058 52 19,530
Burnaby NW NDP 10,259 60 17,164
Burnaby N NDP 10,353 53 19,546
Burnaby S NDP 7294 49 14,817
Cariboo Conservative 13,459 70 19,305
Chilliwack-C Conservative 13,307 55 24,107
Chilliwack N Conservative 11,492 55 20,875
Columbia Conserv. 8616 48 17,911 (3-way race. NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Coquitlam B NDP 10,592 51 20,916
Coquitlam M NDP 11,568 52 22,438
Courtenay Conserv. 13,146 39 33,676 NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Cowichan NDP 11,425 40 28,314
Delta N NDP 10,692 53 20,358
Delta S Conservative 14,234 55 25,792
Esquimalt C NDP 14,456 51 28,274
Fraser Conservative 10,162 55 18,584
Juan NDP 8943 39 23,209 lead of just 23 votes
Kamloops C Conservative 12,127 49 24,771 NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Kamloops N Conservative 17,542 60 29,235
Kelowna C NDP 10,593 43 24,921
Kelowna Lake Conservative 13,618 54 25,127
Kelowna Miss Conservative 13,790 52 26,620
Kootenay C NDP 8466 39 21,485
Kootenay-M NDP 9954 52 19,201
Kootenay-Rockies Conservative 8114 43 18,949 (Independent got 30 percent)
Ladysmith NDP 13,419 41 32,591
Langford NDP 10,940 51 21,265
Langley Conservative 14,043 56 25,145
Langley Walnut Conserv. 11,803 49.7 23,740 NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Langley Willow Conserv. 10,671 49 21,996 NDP + Green more than Conservative tally)
Maple Ridge E Conservative 11,791 47 24,826 (lead of 300)
NDP+Green more than Conserv. tally)
Maple RidgePitt NDP 14,076 55 25,739
Mid Isl. NDP 13,588 49 28,004
Nanaimo Gab. NDP 14,084 52 26850
Nanaimo Lantzville NDP 14,611 51 28,423
Nechako Lakes Conservative 7770 68 11,480
New Westm. Coq NDP 12,214 59 20,731
North Coast NDP 4765 65 7347
North Isl. Conserv. 13,898 47 29,439 3-way race NDP+Green more than Conserv. tally)
North Vanc. Lons. NDP 16,060 65 24,851 2 cand.
North Vanc Seymour NDP 15,671 53 29,775
Oak Bay NDP 13,721 49 28,079
Peace River N Conservative 10,997 74 14,781
Peace River S Conservative 7070 70 10,103
Penticton Summ. Conserv. 11,425 42 27,429 NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Port Coq NDP 13,381 54 24,961
Port Moody NDP 12,871 52 24,871
Powell River Sunsh. NDP 14,060 49 28,456
Prince George Mack Conservative 10,534 61 17,236
Prince George N Cariboo Conservative 11,262 57 19,729
Prince George Valem. Conservative 8882 55 16,021
Richmond -Bridgep. Conservative 9642 58 16,519
Richmond C Conservative 8208 52 15,714
Richmond Queens Conservative 9864 51 19,265
Richmond Steves. NDP 10,013 44 22,662 lead of 500
Saanich N Green 11,858 36 32,895 (3 parties within 2000 votes)
Saanich S NDP 14587 49 29,486 3-way)
Salmon Arm-Shusw. Conservative 16,313 52 31218
Skeena Conservative 6,173 52 11,986
Surrey City C NDP 6439 46 13,925
Surrey-Cloverd. Conserv. 10,004 49 20,592 NDP + Green more than Conservative tally)
Surrey-Fleetw. NDP 9574 48 19848
Surrey-Guildf. Conserv. 8671 47 18,395 (100-vote lead)
NDP + Green more than Conserv. tally)
Surrey-Newton NDP 7632 51 15,026
Surrey-N Conservative 7729 51 15,100
Surrey-Panorama Conservative 8527 49.9 17,100
Surrey-Serpentine Conservative 9550 49.9 19,126 3-way no Green
Surrey S Conservative 12,465 59 21,088
Surrey-White R. Conservative 14,257 52 27,164
Vanc-Fraserv NDP 11,403 57 20,012
Vanc. Hastings NDP 13,701 64 21,385
Vanc. Kensington NDP 11,278 61 18,601
Vancouver Langara NDP 8111 48 16,859
Vanc. Little Mount. NDP 15,009 62 24,239
Vanc. Pt. Grey NDP 11,976 57 21,103
Vanc. Quiichena Conservative 11,036 52 21,292
Vanc. Renfrew NDP 10,578 63 16,797
Vanc. S Granv. NDP 16,390 64 25,594
Vanc. Strath NDP 13,278 69 19,294
Vanc. West End NDP 12,595 63 20,010
Vanc. Yaletown NDP 8552 49 17,311
Vernon Lumby NDP 11528 43 27,127 (lead of 400)
Vict. Beacon NDP 12714 47 26,913 Green in 2nd place
Vict Swan Lake NDP 13498 56 24,182 Green in 2nd place
West Kelowna Conservative 13194 51 25,823
West Vanc-Cap. Conservative 11673 47 24,897 (Ind. cand. took 21 percent)
West Vanc. Sea to Sky Green 10221 38 26,794
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District winners
majority winners 54 (bold above)
minority winners 39
93 seats in total
record lowest minority winner 36 percent Saanich N
record highest majority winner 74 percent Peace River N
Winners' vote tallies
smallest vote tally 4875 Bulkley (2nd: 6173 3rd: 6439 Surrey City)
largest winner's vote tally
more than 16,000:
North Vanc Lonsd 16,060
Salmon Arm Shus. 16,313
Vanc S. Granv. 16,390
Kamloops N 17,000
District
largest turnout in district
more than 26,000:
West Van Seat to Sky
Vict. Beacon
more than 27,000:
Vernon Lumbey
Surrey-White Rock
more than 28,000:
Powell River Sunsh.
more than 29,000:
Kamloops N 29,235
North Island 29,439
North Vanc Seymout 29,775
more than 30,000:
Saanich S 30,000
Ladysmith 32,591
Saanich N 33,000
Courtenay 33,676
smallest turnout in district -- less than a third of the largest turnouts
North Coast 7347 (2nd Bulkley 9301)
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Hope this is useful,
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