Mastodawn

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

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Jean-François Mezei 3d ago

@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.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸3d ago

@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.

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Jean-François Mezei

@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.