British Columbia held an election for its own legislature on May 14. The Green Party elected Andrew Weaver. He is the first Green Party member elected to the body. The other results: Liberal Party won 50 seats; New Democratic Party won 33 seats; one independent was elected.
The distribution of the popular vote was: Liberal 44.4%, New Democratic 39.5%, Green 8.0%, Conservative 4.8%, others 3.3%.
Canada uses the same election system that the United States uses. Whoever gets the most votes is the winner.
An interesting note on this election is that while the BC Liberals won an upset victory, beating poll expectations that they’d lose, the Liberal leader lost her seat.
One more EVIL and VICIOUS minority rule gerrymander regime — inherited from the EVIL and VICIOUS Brit House of Commons — from the late 1200s — into North America in the 1600s, etc.
P.R. NOW
There should be a majority requirement in order to win a seat in a district. If not, there’s a new election.
http://www.fairvote.ca/en/FVC-news/bc-election-results-do-not-reflect-voters-wishes-says-fair-vote-canada
FVC does the minority rule math after each ANTI-Democracy gerrymander election in Canada.
Where is the OUTRAGE and marching in the streets ???
Saying “Whoever gets the most votes is the winner” sounds fair, as does “a majority requirement in order to win” but both methods (plurality or majority) really mean that a large portion of voters in each single seat district will be “represented” by somebody they voted against.
The ONLY fair way to fill legislative seats is through Proportional Representation. For more information, see http://www.betterelections123.us