Under proportional representation, no longer would it be possible for a mandate from just 40% of the voters to translate into a majority control of parliament. But the mainstream parties are not only cutting their own throats ...

MMP, or Mixed Member Proportional representation, is the easiest, fairest and most democratic voting system I've ever seen. The system is designed so that Parliament precisely reflects the wishes of voters, and after five elections ...

This graph from Google shows how frequently “proportional representation” was mentioned in the vast Google Books archive. As you can see, the proportion of books which mentioned PR grew sharply in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...

Proportional representation would mean that if 20% of voters voted for a party… that party would get 20% of the seats. No more, no less. In Scandinavian Parliaments, I have seen first-hand how this leads to rational discussion and ...

However, rarely is any attention paid to the number of voters in smaller ridings compared to those in urban ridings, and how proportional representation on a federal level would drastically reduce the Yukon's already marginal “voting ...