POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tactical Voting, Proportional Representation, Party System
18 Jan 2017
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Canada divided into 338 single-member constituencies or (cid:498)ridings(cid:499) Voters can only vote in the constituency in which they have been enumerated and for one of the candidates running in that constituency. In any constituency, the candidate with the greatest number of votes is elected for this riding. Winning a riding represents a seat in parliament. End of election night the party with most ridings/seats wins. Recent election liberals finished with 184/338 seats which is 54% therefore they formed a majority government. Current and past debates on the electoral system. Liberals have recently made promise that they are going to look into changing electoral system. Bc has formed a citizens assembly to look at differences among political. There are a number of different methods to this style of voting but essentially. Liberals have voiced support for a (cid:498)preferential vote(cid:499), when you go to ballot.
