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Tom Monto

Montopedia blogs on electoral reform 2023

Updated: Jun 16, 2023

Articles on electoral reform on blogsite Montopedia


Produced by Tom Monto 2023


my blogs also listed/indexed on these blogs:



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In these blogs I point out


weaknesses of existing FPTP,


need for proportional representation in a democracy,


possible replacement electoral systems, and


my preference for STV (preferential voting in multi-member districts)


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In particular, subjects covered by blogs include:


Weaknesses of FPTP


- 2019 Alberta election


- 2019 federal election


- Alberta NDP under-represented since its founding in 1961


- 2018 Ontario election


City of Edmonton electoral reform

-- ease of grouping wards to make multi-member districts

-- new single-member wards for 2021 will make little difference -- still many votes

will be wasted; minorities, not majorities, will be represented


History of Canadian governments changing electoral systems


Variety of electoral systems that Canadian governments have used


How do we bring about electoral reform?


Multi-member districts


(all forms of PR use multi-member districts/at-large elections. This alone has benefits whether you use party-list PR, STV or SNTV.)


- Multi-member districts are key to having a range of candidates and representative legislatures


Proportional representation (a family of systems including party-list pro-rep and STV)


Single Transferable Voting (STV)


STV - what it is and how to make it happen now!


- how it works


- Sandford Fleming's 1893 book Essays on the rectification of Parliament


Catherine Helen Spence



- history of use of STV in Canadian history


- Edmonton city elections 1923-1927


- Election of Edmonton MLAs 1924-1955


- 1926 Alberta provincial election


- Election of Edmonton and Calgary MLAs in 1948


- Alberta provincial elections 1924-1955


- Manitoba provincial elections 1920-1952


- Winnipeg city elections 1920-1960s and 1970s


- Canadian cities (20 Western Canadian cities used STV in 150 elections)


- Why was provincial STV dropped in Alberta and Manitoba?



Australia and STV Tasmania and STV Catherine Helen Spence 2020 Australian election


Alternative Voting (AV) (also known as Instant-Runoff Voting)


"Attack on Preferential Voting based on shaky grounds"


- history of use of Alternative Voting


- BC elections in 1952, 1953


- New York City has adopted AV as of 2019


- Aspen, Colorado used quasi-AV in 2009 -- "total schmozzle"


- Maine has adopted AV for elections of congressmen, STV affected 2018 outcome


- London, Ontario adopted AV, forced by Ontario Ford government to give up AV


Party-list pro-rep


-- Ranked ballots versus party-list pro-rep



Single Non Transferable Voting


* SNTV pretty proportional and much more so than FPTP


* SNTV allows diversity of candidates and representatives


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[Guide to keywords:


preferential voting = ranked ballots = single transferable votes = Alternative Voting or STV


Preferential Voting = Alternative Voting


Single Transferable Voting (STV) = PR-STV, STV-PR


FPTP = First Past The Post


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January 2023

Proportional Representation Review


Edmonton municipal electoral reform


Switzerland

Europe list PR


Alberta electoral reform

Alberta provincial elections

Alberta elections

Edmonton

Calgary


Alberta NDP

Edmonton

Calgary

based on party vote across the province


Alberta Views

Klein led false-majority governments in 1993 and 2004

Alberta elections

Edmonton

Calgary

mostly-artificially-created rural-urban divide but actually should say Edmonton-Calgary divide


Liberal PM's broken promise allows FPTP to still make problems for us


Europe electoral reform


MMDs

Canadian elections

Federal elections

Canadian electoral reform


MMD DM STV



Portland Oregon

municipal electoral reform

U.S. electoral reform

STV


https://montopedia.wixsite.com/montopedia/post/math-is-funny


New Zealand MMP


Canadian elections

federal elections

Canadian electoral reform

FPTP


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