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It’s time to put FPTP out to pasture and modernize our electoral system. I vote ranked ballot.

Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system at it again: Québec’s incumbent CAQ party is on track to be wiped off the map despite getting 14% of the vote Québec Solidaire on track to win 11 seats with 11% of the vote

6/10/26, 2:53 am0 reposts1 like

M Holmgren

@holmgren.bsky.social

Have you looked into Mixed Member Proportional as a method? (www.fairvote.ca/mixed-member...) It is used in New Zealand and Germany.

fairvote.caMixed Member Proportional (MMP)Mixed member proportional (MMP) is a proportional system used in Germany, New Zealand and Scotland. Learn more about how it would work in Canada.

Chris Golden

@lyteforce.ca

Hmmm… reading this has me thinking I’d still be strategically voting. For instance, if I prefer Coral but would tolerate Ruby I’d still have to choose which I felt has a better chance against the others…

M Holmgren

@holmgren.bsky.social

Sort of…because the party list determines each party’s proportion of the seats the individual district based seats are less significant. You can vote strategically if you want, but that doesn’t determine who actually gets to be in the majority or coalition.

Chris Golden

@lyteforce.ca

My preference is to have a system that removes my belief that Inoften have to vote strategically first. But let’s be honest, a more proportionally representative system than FPTP is fine. 😀