Fair Vote Proportional Voting System

Kingston Frontenac Public Library | Apr 20, 2016

On Sat. April 23, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library will be hosting a talk about the Proportional Voting System at the Sydenham branch at 2 p.m. The talk will be given by Norm Hart of Fair Vote Canada

“Canada's current electoral system is based on the ‘first-past-the-post’ or ‘winner-takes-all’ system: each riding sends the candidate with the most votes to Ottawa and the party with the largest number of winning candidates forms the government,” says Programming and Outreach Librarian Anne Hall. “But whenever there are more than two parties running, the government will often be formed by a party with far less than 50 % of the total number of votes cast. One could argue that all the votes for the candidates who lost in each riding are lost or wasted.”

Fair Vote Canada believes there’s a better way: proportional voting, where everyone’s vote counts towards the end result, and the number of seats won by each party is proportional to the total number of votes cast. In the April 23 talk, Norm Hart will explain how proportional representation works.

Visit www.kfpl.ca or join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/200020577041107/