Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸2d ago

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

2025 Canadian federal election - Wikipedia

Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)
@chris Some form of PR would be awesome for Canada. I didn’t realize it hadn’t happened since y’all are often ahead of us.
Mar 18 at 8:13pmWeb
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸2d ago
@jackyan NOPE. i wish. BC got the closest way back in the 2000s but it was scuttled by the BC Liberal government of the day when they realized they didn't actually want it to happen and the status quo powers have poisoned every subsequent effort since.
Show threadSieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹2d ago
@chris @jackyan Hopefully the next attempt is going to happen soon and be successful!
https://www.fairvote.ca/11/09/2025/94-of-presenters-to-bc-electoral-reform-committee-recommend-proportional-representation/
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)2d ago
@Anibyl @chris I hope so! I believe it was a citizen-initiated referendum that got ours into play.
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸2d ago
@jackyan NOPE. i wish. BC got the closest way back in the 2000s but it was scuttled by the BC Liberal government of the day when they realized they didn't actually want it to happen and the status quo powers have poisoned every subsequent effort since.
Show threadPatrick Lam 2d ago

@jackyan @chris another area where NZ is ahead of Canada: disability strategy (though the acceptable standard of health required for immigration is able-ist).

These things do migrate between countries, but proportional representation is a tough one.