Ontario 2022 election saw Ford's Conservatives get 2/3rds of the seats with just 2/5ths of the votes.
The election results were a gross misrepresentation of what voters said with their ballots:
The PCs got a landslide majority with just 40.84% of the vote. They won a whopping 83 seats―that’s 7 more seats than they had taken in 2018 with only 0.34 points more of the popular vote.
The Liberal Party earned more of the popular vote than the NDP―23.85% vs 23.73%―but the NDP’s voters elected 31 MPPs and Liberal voters only elected 8.
Despite the support of almost one quarter of Ontario voters, first-past-the-post means the Ontario Liberal Party will again be denied official party status in the legislature, making it even more difficult for the party to represent its voters.
Greens increased their popular vote share from 4.6% in 2018 to 5.96% but still elected only one MPP (Mike Schreiner) to represent the 279,265 people who voted Green in Ontario.
(from Fair Vote Canada press release, June 2022)
54% of voters―2,531,087―cast wasted votes that elected no-one.
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actually, 40 percent of people in all the Ontario districts (121 districts) voted Conservative,
but less than that 40 percent voted for the 83 successful Conservative MLAs in the districts where they won.
As well, about 69 Conservative candidates won their seat with less than half the votes in their districts.
Under a system that required majority support to be elected such as Instant-Runoff Voting, they may - or may not - have taken the seat. But as far as we know, a majority of voters did not give their support for the candidate that was elected.
So we see that the result is not true reflection of the will of the people.
The secret vote - a basis of democracy - we do have ...
Now we need to see the secrecy pushed back so that we can see how representative -- or un-representative -- our elections truly are.
But such is not done for us - we have to dig to get the full story.
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