Submission BEDNARSKI-0104 (Online)
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Submission By | Mr. Michael Bednarski |
Address | North York, Ontario, Canada |
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Date | 20040309 |
Category | Electoral system change, Regional representation |
Abstract
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Whatever voting system or seat distribution method BC chooses,
it should be the same across the province; urban and rural ridings
should not have different voting systems or single member and
multimember ridings. [1 page]
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Submission Content
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I would advise the Citizens' Assembly not
to differentiate urban and rural ridings with different voting
systems or that have urban-multi or rural-single MLAs.
In theory, if a province were split 50% urban and 50% rural, and if
there were two parties--Red and Blue, and if the urban ridings were
multi-seat and the rural ridings were single-seat; then if in the
urban area 51% of the people voted Red and 49% Blue, the
distribution of urban seats would be about 50% Red and 50% Blue. In
the single-member rural areas, if 51% of the people voted Blue in
each riding and 49% voted Red, then Blue would win 100% of the
ridings.
With each party receiving about 50 percent of the vote, the Blue
party would receive about 75% of the seats if urban and rural areas
were treated differently. Is that fair?
In my opinion, once a multi-seat riding goes below three members,
then the vote-to-seat percent distortions greatly increase.
Whatever voting system or seat distribution method BC chooses, it
should be the same across the province.
Good Luck!
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