Question about proportional voting (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/fairvote@lemmy.ca

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Currently, we vote for one representative per riding. The issue with that is that (hypothetically) one riding could have a million people and another could have 100 people. But both of them would have the same amount of power in Parliament because 1 riding = 1 mp.

How would that work in a proportional election system? Is there one candidate per X number of citizens in an area? Wouldn't cities be over represented? Wouldn't there be one candidate to cover very large sparsely inhabited areas that might not have the same needs from one spot to another?

I'm really curious how this would be implemented.

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Another common way is to have each riding represented by multiple MPs, which are then split up between parties in proportion to their vote share. The number of MPs representing a riding can also be proportional to its population, so a rural riding will have 5 MPs but a city might have 20.

(See this map)

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