Ottawa city elections - Today's FPTP is a far cry from the STV once demanded by the public in 1915

It has an elected city council across 24 wards and a mayor elected city-wide, each elected using the first-past-the-post voting election system.

from 2022 official results https://app06.ottawa.ca/election/2022_en.html .

Back in 1915, a majority of Ottawa voters voted to adopt PR (STV) in city elections.

But then the Ontario provincial government actually forbade that progressive reform from taking place.

so now we have the electorate of Ottawa sliced and diced into 24 micro-districts with no overall fairness or proportionality.

in 2022 in the 24 wards, the seat was filled with a winner having this percentage of the vote:

74

71

44

77

27 2550 votes

59

83 12,398 votes

53

39 4812 votes

42

82

37

80

61

72

73

79

47

76

41

67

68

34

37

(from Wiki: "2022 Ottawa municipal election")

so as you see wide variation in the votes per seat, which must impact the fairness and proportionality of the result.

party labels are not used so tit is difficult to know how bad the election result is.

Ranked votes are not the answer not if single-seat wards are still used.

Grouping wards and giving each voter as many votes as seats to fill is not the answer.

Grouping wards in ot multi-member wars or even using city -wide districting, and giving each voter a single vote is the answer.

Whether that vote is ranked (preferential voting is preferable) or not - the result will be much more fair than the present system.

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