One final article from our BC Commentary special: The Case for the BC Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV) by David Huntley and Michael Wortis BC-STV has many advantages over the current First-Past-the-Post system (FPTP) used for electing our MLAs. BC-STV will achieve a reasonably proportional representation of parties, with the number of MLAs of each party [...]
Entries Tagged as 'coalition government'
The Case for STV
May 6th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Electoral reform
Tags: coalition government·David Huntley·FPTP·majoritarian·Michael Wortis·minority government·STV & electoral reform
STV is worth trying
April 25th, 2009 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · Electoral reform
Great to see a debate kicked off among our research associates and others about the pros and cons of BC-STV. As Marc mentions below, the current issue of the CCPA’s BC Commentary has a special collection on STV, which you can download here. Keith outlines the case against STV below. And while the CCPA has [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·coalition government·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
