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BC ELECTION 2001
The results of the 2001 British Columbia General Election has given us
a very skewed representation in the Legislature. The BC Liberal Party,
with 58% of the popular vote has claimed 96% of the seats in the Legislature!
Each Liberal MLA represents 11 to 12 thousand voters; each NDP MLA represents
over 100 thousand voters and over 300 thousand voters, almost one-third
of a million are not represented at all.
Mixed Member Proportional Representation
If the previous governments has brought in some form of proportional representation,
this un-democratic result may have been avoided, or at least ameliorated.
Let's assume that 26 additional seats had been added to the Legislature
to be distributed in such a way so as to make the Legislature more proportionately
representative. The house would have looked more like the second last row
below.
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Liberal |
NDP |
Green |
Unity |
Marijuana |
Independent |
TOTAL |
| Votes |
874,589 |
328,537 |
185,723 |
49,807 |
47,894 |
13,371 |
1,516,720 |
| Vote % |
57.7% |
21.7% |
12.2% |
3.3% |
3.2% |
0.9% |
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| Seats |
76 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
79 |
| Seats % |
96.2% |
3.8% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
0.0% |
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| Add 26 seats |
0 |
12 |
9 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
26 |
| For a total of |
76 |
15 |
9 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
105 |
| MMP Seats % |
72.4% |
14.3% |
8.6% |
1.9% |
1.9% |
1.0% |
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Note that because of the large number Liberal seats, this is not perfect
proportionallity--it would take the addition of 53 extra seats to do that.
Nevertheless, 26 seats would provide a total of 15 NDP MLAs, 9 Greens;
two each of Unity and Marijuana MLAs and one independent.
Just for for, let's pick these extra MLAs from those candidates who
got the highest percent of the popular votes for their parties. The opposition
MLAs, then, would be
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Add 12 Ndp for a total of 15
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Add 9 Greens
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Add 2 Unity
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Add 2 Marijuana
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Add 1 Independent
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| KWAN, Jenny Wai
Ching |
CARR, Adriane
Janice |
MACDONALD, Doug |
RENAUD, Paul |
KASPER, Rick |
| MACPHAIL, Joy |
LEWIS, Andrew |
THIESSEN, Al |
SMECHER, Graeme |
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| DOSANJH, Ujjal |
VIOLINI, Vanessa |
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| FITZPATRICK, Colleen |
MEYER ZU ERPEN,
Walter |
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| ORCHERTON, Steve |
MCCRORY, Colleen |
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| JAMES, Carole |
RUBIN, Varya |
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| HAMMELL, Sue |
LONG, Terry
W. |
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| BARSALLO, Alicia |
HERTZOG, Stuart |
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| FARNWORTH, Mike |
MUNROE, Pam |
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| CONROY, Ed |
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| EVANS, Corky |
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| HUTCHINS, Rob |
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| DOYLE, Jim |
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| STEVENSON, Tim |
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| WADDELL, Ian |
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