Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Mar 18

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 threadJean-François MezeiMar 18

@chris Québec has 78 ridings. Canada has 343.

NDP had 342 candidates in 342 ridings.
Bloc had 78 candidates in 78 ridings.

Canada has 343 separate elections, on for each riding. We don't elect a prime minister, we elect a representative of our riding to the house of commons.

Average electors in each riding is 121,891.

NDP: 1.2 million votes in 342 ridings = 3508 votes per riding or 2.8% of vote.
Bloc 1.2 million votes in 78 ridings = 15,384 votes per riding or 12.6% of votes.

Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@jfmezei correct. but in a way you highlight my point:

Why did the NDP get 6 seats, rather than 10? (3% of 342)
Why did the Bloc get 22 seats, rather than 10? (12% of 78 ridings?)

None of it makes sense because all First Past the Post systems are skewed. We need a proportional system.

Mar 18 at 8:55pmWeb
Show threadJean-François MezeiMar 18

@chris Block got 22 of 78 seats because Bloc is very popular in certain regions and won big there, and got almost nothing elsewhere. So averaging votes per every riding is not right.

Where NDP was second, if ranked ballots happened, they may have been first of most choose NDP as first and Libs as second to prevent Poilievre. from winning.

Show threaddragonfrog3d ago
@jfmezei @chris it very much depends what you value. If you value a national government that broadly represents the desires of the nation, then FPTP is terrible. If you value a national government that has strong representation from any movement whose support is stronly regional qnd shuts out movements whose support aligns with any factor other than region, then FPTP is great.
Show threadJean-François MezeiMar 18

@chris Because we have parliementary democracy, each riding needs to present one MP that represents that riding. Giving a party some "free" seats so they get better representation based on national vote (ag NDP getting 12% of seats because nationally they got 12% of votes) breaks parliementary system.

Who chooses that NDP MP that gets placed in the House to reach that 12%, and whom does that MP represent?

Show threadAmgineMar 18

@jfmezei @chris

Maybe ask the EU Parliament?