Here's a great explainer from our friends at More Equitable Democracy, Protect Democracy, and the Multiracial Democracy Project about proportional representation and building a more inclusive democracy for everyone.
#STV #CivilRights #VotingRights #ProportionalRepresentation
Here's the Green Party leader:
'Asked whether he could see himself as prime minister, Polanski [...] said: "It's definitely on my mind because I get asked about it all the time, but my burning ambition really is to have a wealth tax, action on climate change, and proportional representation."'
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg05xrgkg6o
Join: https://join.greenparty.org.uk
(Membership costs from 50p per month, depending on your income.)
#GreenParty #GreenPartyEW #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #WealthTax #ProportionalRepresentation
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116267578247546517
After WWII, the Germans were required to change their electoral system to prevent another Hitler. They went with #proportionalrepresentation , because when done properly, it prevents wannabe Hitlers like Trump from seizing power.
It is frustrating every single time that I see the popular votes versus seats won in Canadian elections.
Especially when you have a party like the Bloc Quebécois who run only in Québec, pull 1.2 million votes in that province, and receive 22 seats in the House, yet the NDP pulls 1.2 million across Canada and gets 7 seats.
All our system does is reward density, rather than delivering actual representation.
But someone please tell me how 'ranked ballots' will fix this*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election
*don’t, please don't bother.
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
I'll just be satisfied that I didn't waste too much life energy trying to persuade a bunch of nincumpoop legislative apparatus that ....
there is no 'democracy' without
#RankedChoiceVoting and #ProportionalRepresentation and
#PublicBanking
It's not like they haven't been told already by voices more authoritative than mine.
Santa Monica should ditch its plurality at-large council elections and come into compliance with the California Voting Rights Act. But winner-take-all district elections aren't the only possible solution. Proportional #RankedChoiceVoting gives minority groups of all kinds the best opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, avoids spoilers and wasted votes, and ensures the large majority of voters actually get to choose a winner.
#PRCV #STV #ProportionalRepresentation #SantaMonica #VotingRights
https://www.californiacitynews.org/2026/03/santa-monica-sued-over-large-voting-system.html
@2legged @petealexharris @ISawTheWood @Indyposterboy
7/ Gives far too much power to party managers, who get to decide how to prioritise their candidates on the list.
This is why a multi-member constituency/single transferable vote system, which we're already familiar with because it is what we use in "local government" (Scotland has no local government) elections would in my opinion be preferable.
@thetyee “You probably shouldn’t blame Idlout for wanting to leave the NDP. It’s tempting to join a real party, sort of like Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy.”
What an offensive joke of an opinion piece. “Dr. Steve” should take his useless opinions and shove them.
This is not funny, it’s infuriating. #TheTyee is slipping into an abyss publishing this partisan shite.
#leftbehind #2partycanada #proportionalrepresentation #RankedChoiceVoting #votingreformnow #ndp #CarneyLiberals #disgraceful #manufacturedmajority #cdnpoli
To all those #NDP supporters being chided on #cdnpoli for being angry one of our own crossed over to Carney’s neo-con Liberals; you’re allowed and even justified to feel frustrated right now.
Carney’s Liberals and Poilievre’s Conservatives want nothing more but for the NDP to disappear so they can maintain their comfortable 2 party system, reliant on begging for strategic votes from the left to win power.
Every opportunity they get to see the NDP flounder, they will rejoice in.
Stay true to the party next election, avoid #cdnpoli ‘til all this gloating and smugness subsides, and NEVER vote strategically again (no matter how much they beg you).
At this point #Canada deserves whatever it gets under FPTP voting. Frustrating to feel this way, but seeing today’s prevalent smug attitude directed at disillusioned NDP voters angers me as much as all these turncoat politicians shuffling across to give Mark Carney his manufactured majority.
#canpoli #votingreformnow #proportionalrepresentation #RankedChoiceVoting
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