How to renew Canadian democracy
Troy Media Corporation
And FairVote Canada and other organizations, including the federal Green and New Democratic Parties, want to exchange the present FPTP system for some form of Proportional Representation (PR). A government benefiting from FPTP is highly unlikely to ...

Stormont Assembly completes first full term of office
thejournal.ie
... in parallel with elections to the Scottish and Welsh assemblies, as well as the UK-wide election on replacing the current 'first past the post' system for Westminster elections with the 'alternate vote' system of proportional representation. ...

Greens want seat
Sudbury Star
May and her party believe Canada's political system should be one of proportional representation. Without it, there is no "real democracy because the principal of democracy is one person one vote." With the first past the post system, a party can form ...

Sleepwalking into an Election
The Mark
Provincial NDP governments have never made a move to institute proportional representation (PR). In 2003, then brand-new federal leader Jack Layton made PR a key plank in his platform, and also made it a condition of his support for any minority ...