I would like to see a system where only a
candidate with over 50% of the votes could be elected.
This would often require a run-off election about a week
later. I don't wish to bring party politics
into the discussion but by way of illustration I think the
Reform/Alliance parties use this to select their
candidates/leader. There are advantages in such a
system which are obvious and I will not go into them BUT I would
like to point out the following. If a particular party
swept most or all of the seats in a general election, not unlike
the last provincial election, Those ridings which did
not have a 50% majority would be required to have a run
off. That would give the voters, who would already know
a particular party has won the election, an opportunity to vote in
such a way that there would be a somewhat stronger opposition then
exists in British Columbia at this time.
I urge you to reject any form of so-called proportional
government wherein seats are allocated on the basis of the
percentage of votes a particular party receives throughout the
province. I fail to see how this could have any logical
advantage. Just think, a lunatic fringe party receives
4% of total votes cast in province. What
riding gets stuck with the loony?
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