Would PR have fixed this, though? Or could those votes for Mike Morrice, who worked hard for his riding and deserved another session in Parliament, simply have gone to elect some other Green in a floating seat?
With a fixed number of seats, we can’t all get the representatives we want. Members of a party are not fungible.
I think a lot of people would feel free to vote for the representative they truly want instead of feeling forced to vote strategically against someone they don’t want
I don’t know for sure, but under PR, 4 or 5 “presincts” around Kitchener would be amalgamated to select 4 or 5 members of parliament from the pool. I’m not positive if Greens would need 20-25% of vote for 1 seat across all of Kitchener, but it would be the Green that got the most votes that would get the seat. Someone around here knows more than me, but I don’t know if there is a risk of party infighting if “the best they can hope for is x seats”
Would PR have fixed this, though? Or could those votes for Mike Morrice, who worked hard for his riding and deserved another session in Parliament, simply have gone to elect some other Green in a floating seat?
With a fixed number of seats, we can’t all get the representatives we want. Members of a party are not fungible.
I think a lot of people would feel free to vote for the representative they truly want instead of feeling forced to vote strategically against someone they don’t want
That doesn’t really address my point. Yes, voting patterns would have been different. But lets say this is how the vote turned out.
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Maybe not PR. But ranked choice voting sure would have!
I don’t know for sure, but under PR, 4 or 5 “presincts” around Kitchener would be amalgamated to select 4 or 5 members of parliament from the pool. I’m not positive if Greens would need 20-25% of vote for 1 seat across all of Kitchener, but it would be the Green that got the most votes that would get the seat. Someone around here knows more than me, but I don’t know if there is a risk of party infighting if “the best they can hope for is x seats”