Posts made by Dave

Sounds good. I have thought over the problem of cutting out too many candidates with a large percentage of the vote in their ridings. Maybe re-programming my computer again to limit the party percentage to 5 and limiting the riding percentage to 10 will help people be more acceptable to the system although it would restrict smaller parties and independents.

I never heard of DMP until I read your comment on it. I looked into it for a minute and it seemed as if it required 2 people per riding.

An independent won in BC because the PPC candidate that was picked only had 0.81% of the vote so the independent had the highest vote count of 32.65%. The winner in Ontario was picked as the final pick in the province. She happened to be the last one left and had 20.72% of the vote.

If an independent gets a lot of votes along with a lot of other independents running in the region or division they stand a good chance of winning.

The % support of the displaced candidates was 39.53 for 7.50, 39.25 for 7.06, 40.55 for 6.52, 45.89 for 6.29, & 45.62 for 6.26%. Those displaced were all Liberals whose SMDPR ranked list was quite short compared to their FPTP winners' list.

Both Dr. Threlfall and Dr. Falvey have suggested changing the ballot that would exclude independents. I don't know much about score ballots but am afraid they might exclude independents as well. If not, I'm open for change.

The other reason I don't like changing the ballot is that a lot of voters might have difficulty understanding how to vote.

Changing the limit on vote percentage might be alright too. But if you have divisions with less than 15 ridings the percent required for a party to have a candidate picked approaches 5%; and if 10 or less the percent is at least 5 to have a winner. For instance, in PEI with 4 seats, the percentage for a party to get a winner is 12.5

Dave.

Also, electoral districts or divisions can be less than 15 ridings - the bigger provinces do not need to be tabulated all at once.

There is no need to increase the number of MP's as you would in DMP? SMDPR is a proper single member system as each riding gets one representative who ran there. SMDPR as I have it includes independents. In 2019, 2 independents were elected according to my limit of 5% of the vote in each riding. If less than 5%, the candidate with the highest vote count wins. As I run it, there is no party limit as to the percentage of the vote - just in the ridings.

In Ontario in 2019, SMDPR gave the Greens 8 seats all of which had at least 5% of the vote in their ridings: 25.99, 25.46, 10.86, 7.50, 7.06, 6.52, 6.29, & 6.26%.

I am Dave Lowe from Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada. I learned of this website through pr_discussion_group@googlegroups.com from Dr. Keith Edmonds who suggested I write you about the new electoral system that I'm promoting.

It is very similar to and gives the same results as Dr. Monica Threlfall' paper published in 2014 entitled A new electoral system: Majoritarian Election of Candidates with Proportional Allocation of Seats. A copy of it can be printed from googling "a new electoral system by monica threlfall".

The system here in Canada has become known as SMDPR (Single Member District Proportional Representation). A series of videos by Dr. Denis Falvey on it can be seen by searching "denis falvey" on youtube.com

Briefly, it uses the data from our present FPTP system and reconfigures it to give a very proportional result by ranking the parties that participate according to their percentage of the popular vote and ranking their candidates according to their to their percentages of the vote in the ridings or districts in which they ran, then picking the number of winners each party got according to their percentage of the popular vote in their region or province or state.

For a copy of the results of Canada's last federal election in 2021 according to SMDPR which was calculated by my computer program - which you can also get a copy of in the language of C++ - you can email your land mail address to me dave.lowe@live.com

Dave.