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[–] jerkface 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Would PR have fixed this, though? Or could those votes for Mike Morrice, who worked hard for his riding and deserved another session in Parliament, simply have gone to elect some other Green in a floating seat?

With a fixed number of seats, we can't all get the representatives we want. Members of a party are not fungible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Maybe not PR. But ranked choice voting sure would have!

[–] humanspiral 0 points 11 hours ago

I don't know for sure, but under PR, 4 or 5 "presincts" around Kitchener would be amalgamated to select 4 or 5 members of parliament from the pool. I'm not positive if Greens would need 20-25% of vote for 1 seat across all of Kitchener, but it would be the Green that got the most votes that would get the seat. Someone around here knows more than me, but I don't know if there is a risk of party infighting if "the best they can hope for is x seats"

[–] ibelieveinthehousehippo 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people would feel free to vote for the representative they truly want instead of feeling forced to vote strategically against someone they don't want

[–] jerkface 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

That doesn't really address my point. Yes, voting patterns would have been different. But lets say this is how the vote turned out.