#proportionalrepresentation — Public Fediverse posts

"Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland said that he’s never seen this much interest in proportional representation from his colleagues. Representative Don Beyer of Virginia, along with Raskin and a handful of other legislators, have co-sponsored the Fair Representation Act for almost a decade now. It’s the most complete national solution to end gerrymandering and would create a more proportional House with larger, multimember districts and ranked-choice voting. According to their vision, every district nationwide becomes a swing district, and every delegation would more closely represent the politics and racial demographics of every state. Members who have never wanted to talk about it in the past are now asking Raskin how it works."

https://newrepublic.com/article/211774/coming-census-time-bomb

#proportionalrepresentation #FairRepresentationAct #RankedChoiceVoting #Callais #VotingRights

Starmer resigns: Which European country has highest turnover of leaders?

With resignation of #Starmer, #UK is to have its 7th PM in 10 years

A far cry from a country once touted for its ability to produce stable and long-lasting #governments compared to other #European nations, due to its first-past-the-post voting system, the principle of #parliamentary #sovereignty and its evolutionary tradition of governance.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/29/starmer-resigns-which-european-country-has-the-highest-turnover-of-leaders

#ProportionalRepresentation #Voting #FPTP #VotingReform

"Lani Guinier’s views on proportional representation were called 'dangerous' because she challenged the structures of power, and she did so in a way that would particularly benefit Black voters—the canaries in the coal mine—as well as other marginalized groups. But history has a way of vindicating these transformative ideas, from abolition to women’s suffrage to marriage equality. But this vindication can only happen if we are willing to think more radically today."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/proportional-representation-black-vote/#

#VotingRights #VRA #Callais #ProportionalRepresentation #BlackVotersMatter

... Our system of #electing #MPs, #FPTP, means national outcomes often bear little relation to how people actually #vote

- In 2024, #Labour’s 34% vote share translated into two-thirds of the seats. But that massive #majority hasn’t lent stability, because #stability comes from popular support.

https://electoral-reform.org.uk/keir-starmers-resignation-is-the-latest-product-of-the-chaos-of-first-past-the-post/?utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#UK #elections #voting #ProportionalRepresentation #Starmer #ToxicPolitics #DemocracyNOW

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@ZackPolanski #Burnham has stated he believes in #proportionalrepresentation (PR). If PR were implemented in time for the next #GeneralElection, #ReformUK wouldn't be able to get a #majority in the #Commons on the basis of a #minority of the #votes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/john-healey-quits-defence-secretary-starmer-b2994020.html?lid=gd437urmvqz3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_campaign=Morning%20Headlines%20Newsletter%2012-06-2026&utm_term=IND_Headlines_Masterlist_CDP&empar=d05890695c3bf72b24c4cee29f3c758897f834bb104b9715c1c6f867c77393ae. The fuss that's being made over 0.32% of #GDP in the next #Parliament in 4 years' time is astonishing, & assumes - falsely - that #Labour will still be in power in 2030 to determine the level of #defence #spending, when, at the rate things are going, it's far more likely to be #ReformUK, God help us. Of course, if #proportionalrepresentation was to be introduced & implemented in time for the next #GeneralElection, that would be FAR less likely!

@WithFloyd
If American #psyop propagandized #BC actually elects a #populist, #racist, faith based hate government we are truly in for a civil war on the West coast.

I rarely believe the polls though, as modern polls are often rigged by Right Wing owned media to push their dream narrative.

These #Populist Conservatives can’t see that the #MapleMAGA wave is breaking in the States and will soon break in #Canada.

I’m done with the prospect of a divisive Conservative government destroying the culture we have built while forcing their Christian ideals on the rest of BC.

If they manage to win by harnessing racial hate and anti lgbtq+ narratives, #BritishColumbia has truly chosen strife over peace, division over unity and populist hysteria over sanity.

Those of us left will respond in kind. Eff these populist, hate driven politicians. Their day in the sun is done, we will not let their cancer of hate destroy our province.

This isn’t about politics anymore, it’s about a culture war supported/created by #American interests, stoked by power hungry, desperate #Conservatives and supported by washed up former #Liberals helping them attain power.

This is what happens when the BC Liberal (United) party just admits they are cosplay Conservatives and line up to stack the deck against the Left.

We now NEED #ProportionalRepresentation or #RankedChoice voting to prevent an inevitable culture war, both Federally and Provincially.

Without it we will continue to fight each other, in turn opening the door to American fascists who will exploit that divide they helped create to further shatter our country’s resolve.

Stay strong BC, I still have hope in a better outcome but am preparing for the worst. Push back the hate or end up wallowing in it.

#bcpoli #cdnpoli #VoteABC
#populistpoliticians #endtheconservatives #racialhate #divideandconquertactics #conservativescum

#jouRapNal #book19 day 26

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#3goodThings #c4c #proportionalRepresentation #cake
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#NiceDayInnit #doneEarly #futurePlan

In supporting #DanielleSmith’s demands to force yet another bitumen pipeline on British Columbia, oil drunk #Liberals are done in #BC.

Voting strategically for #MarkCarney despite my continued rage over the environmental destruction #TMX has wreaked on #Burnaby and #BC was the dumbest leap of faith I’ve ever taken at the polls. Conservative kiss-ass Carney can kiss his strategic voters in BC goodbye.

This is no “nation building” project, it is a capitulation to Big Oil pressure under the guise of nationalism, and the start of yet another federal war on British Columbia and all those protecting it.

This dirty, useless, expensive project won’t get done without shady #American or #Saudi investors, #Palantir drones patrolling the skies of Northern BC, and the inevitable sacrifice and destruction of our beautiful coastline for Alberta’s greedy, dirty oil economy.

This project will be Mark Carney’s albatross to bear, hope it was worth it for these pitiful Liberal Traitors.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #pipeline #climatedestruction #federaloverreach #LiberalBetrayal #appeasingseparatists #abusingfirstnations #shameonMarkCarney #elbowsdown #effCarney #effSmith #votingreformnow #proportionalrepresentation

Ignore false claims #ProportionalRepresentation (a term used to refer to systems that have nothing in common other than fitting a very specific mathematical formula) will solve problems.

#cdnpoli #Election2025 #vote2025
#DitchFPTP #RankedChoiceVoting
#FairVoteCanada

https://r.flora.ca/p/pr-doesnt-necessarily-make-every-vote

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