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Tom Monto

Proportional Representation Review -- pub. by American PR. League (U.S. and Canada)

Proportional Representation Review


started up in 1890s but published for only short time


re-started in 1904 Robert Tyson was editor

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Proportional Representation Review

1917-1914


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PR Review   Oct 1914     7/240


PR Review 1915

Jan 1915

April 1915

July 1915

October 1915



PR Review 1916


PR Review  Jan 1916


PR Review April 1916


PR Review  July 1916  117/240


121?/240      mentions 

A pamphlet, on the first P. R. election in Ashtabula, issued by the Chamber of Commerce of the city, will be sent free on application to that body

[excerpt from annual report of Ashtabula see 203/240)


121/240 John Humphreys speech to Proportionalists of Philadelphia 1916 

on PR and its impact: freedom for the voter, freedom for the candidate, leadership, "Pork" and "Spoils", PR and social reform, PR and Peace,

Liberation of thought,

Great Opportunity


133/240      formation of PRS of Canada


Ireland Lord Grey 136/240


April 2, 1916  E.N. Rhodes, deputy speaker of Canadian HofC, endorsed PR       138/240


P.R. for cities attacked in National Municipal Review

Humphreys rebutted the remarks in National Municipal Review  138/240


UFA assembled in Calgary passed resolution in favour of PR 138/240

 

139/240 list of PR League publications




PR Review    Oct. 1916     141/240


Electoral reform conference 143/240

Earl Grey


English Society endorsed P.R.   145/240


P.R. in Sweden 146/240


Quebec prov . election 148/240


Liberal party and P.R. 148/240


Calgary discussing city P.R.   P.R. Society of Calgary invited to propose something 149/240


P.R. and City Government by Yorath distributed in Saskatchewan


P.R. is fair rep. 152/240


1917

PR Review  Jan 1917 153/240


Hare rules for public electionsHare rules for private elections  171/240


174/240 Milestones in the progress of the Hare system [timeline]


Political advantages of the Hare system  175/240


Death of Robert Tyson    176/240


Adoption of P.R. in Calgary 177/240


Am. P.R. League not committed to one system of P.R. but considers Hare the best 177/240


P.R. publications 179/240



PR Review April 1917  181/240


P.R. recommended for England

UFA   191/240 

P.R. Society of Canada

Ashtabula plan   193/240

Australia

P.R. Society of Massachusetts  195/240

Laurier



PR Review July 1917 197/240


BC  reported BC had passed law allowing STV in cities   199/240


Sydney B. Johnson named head of PR Society of Canada, after Hooper resigned

Hooper named head of People's Forum of Ottawa


Howard S. Ross, Canadian secretary of the Am. PR League, elected president of People's Forum of Montreal.


Jan 1917 PR Review had published rules for Hare elections

July 1917 issue had some amendments (207/240)



Jul 1917 supplement  (209/240)

Transfer of surplus ballots - the Chance method and the Exact method

Parker Smith identified the (small) scale of chance in chance method in an appendix to Humphreys 1911 book

shows that where winner has 4000 surplus votes, vote transfers may vary just by as much as 60 votes only about 1 in 2000 attempts.  (210/240)



PR Review Oct. 1917  219/240

225/240   report of use of STV in Christchurch (NZ) city election  222/240


227/240 Earl of Earl Grey passed away

"one of the most ardent and able, and perhaps the most influential, of all British proportionalists"

president of PRS, England

honorary vice-president of Am. PR League

honorary president of PRS of Canada



Russian Constituent Assembly to be elected by PR  228/240


U.S. New National Party and P.R. 229/240


Ashtabula second P.R. election electing seven         Boynton PR man to run 230/240


What P.R.  accomplishes     230/240


Other than the page of Proportional Representation Review, Canadian periodicals seldom reported on the large proportion of votes that were not actually used to elect anyone under FPTP, and most periodicals did just as poor a job of reporting the high proportion of votes that were actually used to elect someone under PR-STV. (This is pretty much the same even today.)

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