Simple Things You Can Do to Grow the PR Movement 🗳️🇨🇦

If the BC Liberals returned, first-past-the-post puts the BC NDP or BC Conservatives close to a majority with 34% support, while the Liberals win just one seat with 15%.

We speak of shared values, but most of Europe uses proportional representation while Canada still grants majority power with 30% to 40% of the vote.

Alberta's problems are exacerbated by first-past-the-post

When politicians win majorities without a majority of the vote, they can change rules to suit themselves and limit transparency.

Denmark's election shows that proportional representation works

Avi Lewis’s pledge to make proportional representation the NDP’s one demand says he is serious about PR

Avi Lewis's pledge to make proportional representation the NDP's one demand says he is serious about PR

If our system rewards broad support, politicians must listen to more people.

Whether it's disallowance or the notwithstanding clause, first-past-the-post puts “nuclear options” in the hands of politicians who don't represent large parts of the country.

The 2026 World Happiness Report is out, and the pattern is clear. Countries with proportional representation rank at the top.

In the UK, a party can come close to a majority with just 25% of the vote.

What would it take for NDP support in a Liberal minority?

Far right One Nation is surging in Australia and closing in on majority territory.

BCNDP Opposes Proportional Representation in Practice

BC NDP-Green deal is over, but support for action on electoral reform is stronger than ever

Rob, Raw: The Leveller Interview with NDP Leadership Candidate Rob Ashton

Ask your mla to support a citizen's assembly on electoral reform

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The BC NDP 🟠 Scams Voters Once Again

When governments can win power with 30% to 40% of the vote, long term planning suffers. Big promises get torn up after every election.

BC’s own Electoral Reform Committee recommended a Citizens’ Assembly.

Eby Learned Well From The Master

When legislatures mirror how people actually vote, governments rely less on raw power and more on agreement.

The Provincial NDP Must Walk The Talk

B.C. has tried and failed to change its voting system. Could another referendum be on?

Homelessness persists when policy resets every election.

1982 Mauritian general election

If first-past-the-post really blocked extremism, politicians would not keep warning that parties are being captured from within.

First-past-the-post rewards rigid party discipline.

When elections are competitive everywhere, not just in a handful of swing ridings, people stay engaged.

New Zealand shows what happens when electoral reform is built to last. Ontario shows what happens when it is not.

When a government knows it cannot be easily voted out, accountability erodes.

Petition to implement proportional representation

A Liberal in rural Alberta or a Conservative in downtown Toronto can vote for decades without ever electing a candidate they support.

British Columbia has lived with first-past-the-post distortion for decades.

Visit your NDP MLA and show there is real support for proportional representation.

Interview with municipal councillor Jeff Wheeldon on his motion to support proportional representation

Doug Ford’s increase to donation limits advantages his party, but making the per-vote subsidy permanent is the right thing to do

Passing a budget in Denmark and Canada: cooperation versus political brinkmanship

When a party can win unchecked power with 40% of the vote, accountability becomes optional.

Transit City. Relief Line. Eglinton West Subway. Scarborough LRT. They were all proposed, then cancelled or rewritten. That is first-past-the-post at work.

Bill S-222 would let 16 and 17 year olds vote.

The powers in Bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, are an affront to Parliamentary democracy

Under first-past-the-post, a few ridings can decide everything.

November 2025 EKOS polling shows BC public strongly behind proportional representation

Even former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole has said Canada needs to take a serious look at proportional representation

The turmoil on the BC right is not random. It is what happens when first-past-the-post forces entire movements into one party and punishes voters for choice.

Extremists can rise anywhere. In Australia, the far right One Nation is closing in on Official Opposition under a winner take all system.