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Proportional representation doesn’t just change how many seats a party wins, but where.

Whether you’re a Liberal in rural Alberta or a Conservative in downtown Toronto, you get the representation you vote for.

That’s why we love PR-it bridges our divides.

#cdnpoli

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 hours ago

    Trudeau rejected their recommendation because he preferred IRV, thereby breaking his promise to have 2015 be the last election under FPTP.

    I consider it a dysfunction that “letting IRV win” was blocked.

    The key difference is that in winner-take-all systems like IRV, a significant portion of ballots (often 40-60%) don’t elect anyone at all.

    Understand the point. Definitely don’t see it as a dealbreaker for democracy. As a green voter, possible election assistant, possible candidate… I could try to win a seat under IRV, knowing that message/platform matters more than manipulation of “vote wasting”. Platform could still piss off oligarchy that backs different parties, but to voters, saving the world could make Green a 2nd choice, despite their media propaganda supporting oligarchy and against the alternate oligarchy.

    Under PR, if the green party accepted me as one of 3 accepted candidates, and I got the most votes out of the Green party, and the Green party got say 20% total of the vote (threshold for a seat), then I could win that seat. Our party’s 3 candidates would be covering a larger riding that used to hold 5 candidates, and so personal campaigning would be more challenging.

    There’s a matter of fringe positions that would get represented under PR. Fringe can be avant-garde good, or it can be “Covid doesn’t exist and we should all get it for our own good”. I think PR would be an advantage for our common oligarchist/US/Israel accepted disinformation group think, in getting representation not indebted to CIA, but that is independents rather than parties and their leaders and every parliamentarian swearing a loyalty (their votes) to party leader system. Maybe parties that allow candidates to represent them, give more power to the diversity of candidates, and their opinions, and allow for some independence on CIA “must haves”, but my impression of PR is that it is a much stronger party hierarchy system. Diversity on “alternative medicine” can be allowed, only because it is not a critical (except for Pharma dominance) CIA issue.