{"id":352,"date":"2008-10-15T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:07","slug":"what-canadas-parliament-would-look-like-today-under-a-system-of-proportional-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"What Canada’s parliament would look like today under a system of proportional representation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to<\/span> wmtc<\/span><\/a> for pointing me to these rather stunning stats published today by<\/span> Fair Vote Canada<\/span><\/a>, an organization whose mandate is to promote voting reform in Canada:<\/span><\/p>\n

Conservatives – 38% of the popular vote: 117 seats (not 143)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals – 26% of the popular vote: 81 seats (not 76)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

NDP – 18% of the popular vote: 57 seats (not 37)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bloc – 10% of the popular vote: 28 seats (not 50)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Greens – 7% of the popular vote: 23 seats (not 0)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Fair Vote press release<\/a> also includes these facts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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–<\/span><\/em><\/span> Green Party: 940,000 voters supporting the Green Party sent no one to<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Parliament, setting a new record for the most votes cast for any party that<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

gained no parliamentary representation. By comparison, 813,000<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Conservative voters in Alberta alone were able to elect 27 MPs.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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–<\/span><\/em><\/span> Prairie Liberals and New Democrats: In the prairie provinces, Conservatives<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

received roughly twice the vote of the Liberals and NDP, but took seven times<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

as many seats.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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–<\/span><\/em><\/span> Urban Conservatives: Similar to the last election, a quarter-million<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Conservative voters in Toronto elected no one and neither did Conservative<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

voters in Montreal.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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–<\/span><\/em><\/span> New Democrats: The NDP attracted 1.1 million more votes than the Bloc, but<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

the voting system gave the Bloc 50 seats, the NDP 37.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Perhaps seeing these figures will inspire Canadians to reexamine how we elect our representatives to Parliament. They certainly tell us a bit more about how Canadians actually voted than do the number of seats each party one.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you’re interested, Fair Vote has a petition you can sign that calls for the development of “a more proportional voting system” for Canada. You can sign it here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to wmtc for pointing me to these rather stunning stats published today by Fair Vote Canada, an organization whose mandate is to promote voting reform in Canada: Conservatives – 38% of the popular vote: 117 seats (not 143) Liberals – 26% of the popular vote: 81 seats (not 76) NDP – 18% of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}