1. Break the province down into 6 regions:
A.Vancouver/Burnaby
B.Greater Vancouver
C.Fraser Valley
D.Vancouver Island and Powell River
E.Southern Interior
F.North
2. A-E would each have 14 ridings. (each region has approx that
many now, amazingly enough), obviously the exact boundaries of the
regions would have to be set to ensure approx equal populations.
3. The North would remain as it is now. With 9 single member
ridings. (Thanks to Nick Loenen for that idea)
4. For the other 5 regions. They would have 7 first
past the post ridings (each riding would be bascally double in
population size from what it is now, very similar to the federal
ridings), and 7 proportional representation ridings.
5. There would be a primary election, prior to the general
election. The primary election candidates would include both the
single riding candidates for each party (very similar to the
process in the United States) and a list of whoever chose to run
for the proportional rep party slates.
5A. A person would be given a full ballot with all the names for
each party, and then would check off at the top of the ballot the
party they wished to cast their votes for. They would be restricted
to one party for both their individual riding candidate as well as
the slate.
5b. The top 7 finishers for each party on the proportional rep list
would be the 7 names that would go on the ballot for the general
election, in the order of the number of votes they receive.
5c. This primary process would remove from the party the selection
of the proportional election candidate list as well as make the
individual riding candidate selection much more democratic. let's
be honest, the present party nomination meetings are basically a
joke.
5D. I think what most likely would happen is you would get slates
of seven candidates running against other slates in each region for
each parties' nomination. For the slate to maximize its vote, they
would most likely try to ensure a geographical balance within the
region, as well as hopefully gender and age, and other balances.
6.For the general election, each voter would receive two votes, the
individual member in their riding as well as the preferred
party.
7. My idea is that the proportional representation part
would be restricted to just the slate. (Ok that made no sense).
Basically I mean this: If a party receives 50% of the vote on the
preferred party ballot, and wins all the 7 ridings in the region.
They would still receive an additional 3-4 ridings of the
proportional rep, topping them up to 10-11 seats. This proposal
would make it far more likely that a majority government would
result, but at the same time, allow parties winning approx 10% of
the party vote (7*10%=0.7) in a region to get a seat, thereby
ensuring that more voices be heard.
I don't think this is to complex.
To sum up, my proposal has the benefit of:
1. A primary vote
2. Proportional representation
3. A likely majority government
4. The voters, not the parties being allowed to select
the 'list' candidates
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