#proportionalrepresentation — Public Fediverse posts

@dyckron
An example of a country with #ProportionalRepresentation having right-left swing, just like how it happens in Canada

The difference being that Canada and its provinces have unrepresentative false-majority govts

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Kemi Badenoch
MP for North West Essex

Won with only 35.6% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

@gordonmcdowell @chris

The majority of experts who testified at the ERRE committee gave evidence that proportional representation was the best option for meeting the committee's goals. No one disputed this. That was the consensus. Further, prior to the committee meetings, the members had meetings with Canadians across the country. Most Canadians that the committee members met with cited PR as their preference for electoral reform.

The Liberal members of the committee, however, ignored the evidence and, in the end, chose to inexplicably advocate for Alternative Vote (which, besides a different ballot, is basically the same as FPTP, in that it is a single member riding winner-take-all system --> winner take all is the problem). This led to Maryam Monsef's idiotic ridicule of the Gallagher Index. Ignoring evidence and ridiculing science is often seen with right wing parties. Under no circumstances should either the GPC or the NDP partake in such nonsense.

#cdnpoli #electoralreform #proportionalrepresentation

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Edward Leigh
MP for Gainsborough

Won with only 35.6% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

🚨 #RepresentationofthePeopleBill 👇#CapPoliticalDonations is paramount, as is #ProportionalRepresentation @10DowningStreet in a true #Democracy!

@mvmreading @SydesJokes #Politics #MakeVotesMatter #BigMoneyOutOfPolitics #WeThePeople

@dyckron
1. I don't think @zazzoo can square the circle: #ProportionalRepresentation presumes that the fundamental component of the legislature is the party, not the individual representative.

2. I agree with @jfmezei ; parties care about the votes they don't get, so even if the candidate you voted for doesn't win, that vote can still affect the policies of the gov't. An increased vote for the Green Party leads other parties to develop platforms that may appeal to those voters.

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@zazzoo @dyckron
The article's complaint about the weight of votes in PEI vs. in Alberta has nothing to do with #ProportionalRepresentation, as I read it. The concern is that each riding in PEI has about 25 000 residents, while each Alberta riding has about 100 000 residents. Thus each PEI vote is worth about four times as much as each Albertan vote.

I thought it was well-known that some Canadians are upset about that...

#CanPol #cdnpoli

@jfmezei

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Karen Bradley
MP for Staffordshire Moorlands

Won with only 35.4% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Rebecca Paul
MP for Reigate

Won with only 35.4% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Desmond Swayne
MP for New Forest West

Won with only 35.4% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

Burnham electrified the Labour party by talking about electoral reform – now he needs to act on it | Polly Toynbee
By Polly Toynbee

The prime minister has lifted the spirits of the public and party members, and must use that goodwill to push through change

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/28/andy-burnham-electoral-reform-proportional-representation

#Electoralreform #Proportionalrepresentation #Firstpastthepost #AndyBurnham #Politics #UKnews #Labour #TheGuardian #PollyToynbee

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Rachel Hopkins
MP for Luton South and South Bedfordshire

Won with only 35.4% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

@electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Matt Turmaine
MP for Watford

Won with only 35.3% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

🚨Changing #Westminster’s voting system shouldn't be left to the politicians.😤 An independent commission could get the public & experts together in one room to examine the evidence & build consensus for reform. Add your name today: 👇 #Petition #Politics #ProportionalRepresentation #Democracy #Justice #Inequality #Accountability
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762149

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Roger Gale
MP for Herne Bay and Sandwich

Won with only 35.3% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Rupert Lowe
MP for Great Yarmouth

Won with only 35.3% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Julian Smith
MP for Skipton and Ripon

Won with only 35.2% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

Spent the afternoon at #yegpride #yegfanpark with the @fairvoteyeg.bsky.social gang. So much good energy, energy for electoral change! #yeg #cdnpoli #abpoli #ProportionalRepresentation
@fairvote.ca

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Debbie Abrahams
MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth

Won with only 35.2% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

@electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Shockat Adam
MP for Leicester South

Won with only 35.2% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Dave Robertson
MP for Lichfield

Won with only 35.1% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Ben Obese-Jecty
MP for Huntingdon

Won with only 35.1% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

#DavidBlain: “Why stay in Canada? ... the problem isn’t Confederation — it’s a 19th-century voting system straining to represent a 21st-century, regionally diverse country."
@fairvote.ca
#ProportionalRepresentation #cdnpoli #abpoli
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/alberta-voices-david-blain-ask-why-albertans-feel-unheard

First-Past-The-Post Fail League❗️
UK Edition 🇬🇧🗳️!

Today’s champion:

Maya Ellis
MP for Ribble Valley

Won with only 34.9% of total voter ballots cast

Multi-Member #ProportionalRepresentation please! Like and share if you agree!

#UKPolitics @electoralreform @MakeVotesMatter

Ontario PR supporters: here is a concrete action.

If you support proportional representation and are eligible to join the Ontario Liberal Party, join through the official OLP page:

https://action.ontarioliberal.ca/f/join

Then contact EVERY leadership candidate. Tell them you joined and that support for PR and cross-party cooperation will influence your leadership vote.

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Eric Lombardi
https://ericforolp.ca
[email protected]

Dylan Marando
https://votefordylan.ca
[email protected]

Lee Fairclough
https://leefairclough.ca
[email protected]

Navdeep Bains
https://navdeepbains.ca
[email protected]

Stephanie Bowman
https://stephaniebowman.ca
[email protected]

Candidate positions are still evolving. That makes now the time to push.

A quiet supporter is easy to overlook. An organized bloc of new members writing every campaign is not.

#ProRep #Democracy
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #ONpoli

Labour’s Factions: How Did Things Get #Hyperfactional?

#Podcast

The history of factions within the #Labour Party, from its inception through the #NewLabour era and now to the #Starmer-McSweeney hyperfaction, and the consequences that has both for the party and for #democracy in #Britain today.

https://www.compassonline.org.uk/podcast/upcoming/labours-factions-how-did-things-get-hyperfactional-with-jeremy-gilbert-and-alan-finlayson/?source=Fediverse

#Starmer #ToxicLabour #ToxicStarmer #KeirStalin #UK #ProportionalRepresentation #DemocracyNOW

#Labour and #Greens tied, Find Out Now poll finds

#ToxicLabour #RedReform

Intention voting tracker showed Labour under Keir #Starmer at its lowest ever level – 15% of the vote share.

In June 2019, when the party was led by Jeremy #Corbyn, its lowest vote share was 23%, according to Politico.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25548058.labour-greens-tied-find-now-poll-finds/

#ToxicStarmer #DemocracyNOW #ProportionalRepresentation #PR #voting

reincarnation of the 1940's #US #Fascist party (#AmericaFirst) did, in contrast, win the congressional majorities (Senate: 53/47, House: 220/2015.)

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_U.S._Congress

This was enabled by a dualistic, unfairer #ElectoralSystem, the #US' #WinnerTakeAll system.
In contrast to a variant of the puralistic, fairer system of #ProportionalRepresentation.

Here is a comparison to the US system of #WinnerTakeAll (or #FirstPastThePost in the #UK:)

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/proportional-representation-explained/

@realSiegfried @jrredho

FixOurHouse.com 2022 Redistricting Report
Single-Winner Districts and the Failures of Redistricting

So much good info.

Re Majority-Minority Districts:
“A rule that relies on segregation in order to work is a sign of a deeply unhealthy system”

https://www.fixourhouse.org/resources/fix-our-house-redistricting-report

#proportionalrepresentation #gerrymandering
#independendentredistricting
#multimemberdistricts
#winnertakeall