This is my understanding of Single Transferable Vote vs Proportional Representation vs First Past The Post Tell me where this is wronghttps://twitter.com/snoble/status/1060964095686393856 …
You can model my riding of Gulf Islands/Saanich as having roughly 50% support for each of the Liberals, the NDP, and the Greens, with NDP/Green significantly overlapping. In FPTP it was until recently considered risky to vote for Green because that might get the Liberal in.
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In the last election that actually tipped over and we voted in the Green MLA. But I predict that would have happened sooner if people could rank Green #1 and feel safe that NDP is #2.
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Actually that same dynamic played out at the federal level too (with Elizabeth May as our MP now).
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I mean, we had a federal Conservative majority basically as a result of "the NDP became more popular in Quebec" and then a Liberal one when "the NDP became less popular on Quebec"
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No question that STV carries the most signal. I wonder how the dynamics change if you can get that signal from outside the election system. Like with really good polling Of course that raises the question of "what's wrong with STV?"
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The real question is “what’s the common wrong with all of these voting systems?” The party is able to whip members to tow the party line and vote against the interests of their constituents. The fundamental problem is parties and whipping.
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No question parties are corrupt. at least they have brand value to protect which makes them offer some policing of members I'd worry a lot about an elected politician whose survival is based entirely on getting enough community votes. And might not care that much about survival
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