cityvote.caCityVote Survey
Welcome to the CityVote campaign. We are a non-partisan initiative seeking voting reform at the municipal level in BC. Just prior to the November 2008 civic election, we conducted a survey of the candidates for mayor and city council in Vancouver. The article below outlines our findings.
CityVote Survey of Vancouver Candidates for Mayor and Council - Vancouver Civic Parties and Candidates Weigh in on Electoral Reform
Will We Get The Council We Vote For?
Fair Vote UBC Says Wards Are Not The Answer
Posted November 28th, 2008 by Antony Hodgsonhttp://fairvoteubc.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/wards-are-not-the-answer/
Kashmir Dhaliwal is correct. Vancouver’s block-voting electoral system does
discriminate against ethnic and political minorities, and Vancouver does
need a ward system. However we must be careful not to substitute one broken
system for another that is almost as bad: The FPTP system we use
provincially. FPTP recognizes geographically concentrated diversity (such as
Quebec separatists), but still discriminates against all ethnic and
political minorities that are geographically dispersed, so that half of us
are left without a representative that we voted for.
Block voting is hurting Vancouver’s democratic process - STV Needed (the Ubyssey)
Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Antony HodgsonThe city needs a single transferable vote electoral system
by Bruce Krayenhoff
Perspectives Writer, the Ubyssey (UBC's student newspaper)
Friday, November 21st, 2008
The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) won the last election because the left split the vote between the Coalition Of Progressive Electors (COPE) and Vision, but this election, COPE and Vision went in with a united slate, winning nine out of ten council seats with an approximate average of 51 per cent support to the NPA’s 36 per cent, leaving them with nearly no opposition. How did this happen?
Election results unfair - Letter to the Editor, Burnaby Now
Posted November 22nd, 2008 by Antony HodgsonPublished: Saturday, November 22, 2008
Dear Editor:
The results of the election for Burnaby city councillors once again shows us that we use one of the worst possible electoral systems.
The Burnaby Citizens' Association received 52.6 per cent of the votes, while the other candidates received 47.4 per cent of the votes.
The others received almost half of the popular vote, yet the BCA's candidates got 100 per cent of the council seats. A fair voting system would have yielded a completely different result.
