US EditionNo more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could stop regional election sweeps
- Last month's Canadian federal election revealed significant regional distortions under the first-past-the-post system, especially in Alberta and Nova Scotia.
- These distortions arise because parties can form governments with a small vote fraction by targeting key ridings, leading to monolithic regional strongholds.
- MQO Research applied Brazil's proportional representation model to the election data, showing a more dispersed seat distribution without dominant party sweeps in provinces like Alberta and Nova Scotia.
- For example, Alberta’s Liberals earned 28% of votes but only 5% of seats, yet under the Brazil model, they would have obtained 10 seats, while the Conservatives' seat count would reduce from 34 to 24.
- These findings suggest electoral reform toward proportional representation could reduce regional political polarization and possibly ease Western alienation, though it would not resolve all underlying factors driving dissatisfaction.
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No more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could prevent regional election sweeps
A change to Canada's electoral system would have delivered a very different House of Commons this year — one without the monolithic regional strongholds held by both major federal parties — according to an analysis for The Canadian Press.
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No more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could stop regional election sweeps
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