2015-12-24 by Craig Anthony Henschel

BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform – Fact Sheets and Glossary

These Fact Sheets and Glossary were prepared for the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform and BC voters.

You can access the Fact Sheets and Glossary individually, or as a single PDF titled BCCA Fact Sheets and Glossary.

Electoral System Glossary

Assessing Electoral Systems

Legislatures, elections, representation and parties

Electoral experimentation in BC

Why electoral reform

Understanding electoral systems

Electoral systems

Majority systems

Plurality systems

Proportional representation – List Systems

Proportional representation by single transferable vote

Mixed electoral systems

Implications of electoral systems

BCCA Fact Sheets 1-14 and Glossary

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In the 1991 Supreme Court of Canada Case, Reference re Prov. Electoral Boundaries (Sask.), Justice Beverley McLachlin noted:

“What are the conditions of effective representation?

The first is relative parity of voting power. A system which dilutes one citizen’s vote unduly as compared with another citizen’s vote runs the risk of providing inadequate representation to the citizen whose vote is diluted.

The legislative power of the citizen whose vote is diluted will be reduced, as may be access to and assistance from his or her representative. The result will be uneven and unfair representation.”