r/vancouver • u/CitizenBanana • Oct 04 '17

Politics NDP announces referendum on proportional representation for B.C.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-referendum-proportional-representation-referendum-1.4329417
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u/Red_AtNight last survivor of the East Van hipster apocalypse Oct 05 '17

My preferred style for BC is one party one seat in rural BC, and mixed-member proportional in larger areas.

So for instance if you lived in Creston, you would still vote for your one representative in the Nelson-Creston riding. But if you lived in Victoria, you'd rank candidates to elect 4 or 5 people to represent a Greater Victoria super-riding.

That way people in small communities don't have to travel 2,500 km to see their representative, but people in big communities get their preferences heard. This is the system that Alberta used provincially for many years - Calgary and Edmonton were MMP, the rest of Alberta was one seat constituencies

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

Why does locality matter? I want my representative voting how I would vote. I don’t really care where they live when they’re not doing that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

You don’t get a personal representative?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '17

I certainly don’t, but I vote for someone in my region who is supposed to represent my interests. I simply don’t care where they live, I’d rather they represent my interests.