BASIC PARTS OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA) GREEN PARTY PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION PROPOSAL FEB. 2002
---- http://elections.bc.ca/init/i2002.html Initiative to Establish a Proportional Representation Electoral System � Petition number:IP-2002-001 Proponent's name: Adriane Carr ------ D- The 2001 election elected 77 Liberals and 2 New Democrats -- in the 79 gerrymander districts using plurality elections (aka FPTP). ------- Proportional Representation Electoral Amendment Act *** 18. Section 89 is repealed and the following substituted: Each individual may vote only once in an election 89 An individual must not cast more than one constituency ballot and one party ballot in the same general election and not more than one constituency ballot in the same by-election. *** 38. Section 125 is repealed and the following substituted: Preliminary election results 125 (1) After the ballot account is completed under section 121 (3), the voting officer must report to the district electoral officer, (a) the number of votes accepted for each candidate and the number of rejected constituency ballots, and (b) the number of votes accepted for each party and the number of rejected party ballots. (2) On the basis of the reports received under subsection (1), the district electoral officer may make public preliminary results for the election. *** 43. Section 137 is repealed and the following substituted: Regulations for allocating party seats 137A (1) The total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly will be twice the number of electoral districts, with half of the seats going to constituency candidates and half of the seats going to party candidates (�party seats�). (2) In order to be eligible for party seats, a party must receive at least five percent of the total valid votes on party ballots in a general election or elect at least one constituency representative. (3) The Chief Electoral Officer will use the following procedure to ensure that the proportion of members of the entire Legislative Assembly affiliated with a particular political party resembles as closely as possible the proportion of total valid votes cast for that party on party ballots: (a) Determine the �Eligible Support� for each party by calculating the number of votes cast for the party in the party ballot, and dividing by the total number of votes cast for parties eligible for party seats. (b) Determine the �Optimum Number of Seats� for each party by multiplying the Eligible Support of the party by the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly. (c) Determine the �Eligible Parties� by excluding from the list of parties on the party ballot any party that is not eligible for party seats, and any party that has elected a number of constituency candidates greater than or equal to the Optimum Number of Seats for that party. (d) Allocate the party seats among the Eligible Parties in a manner that ensures that the ratio of [total final seats divided by Optimum Number of Seats] for each Eligible Party is the same or such that the difference between the highest ratio and lowest ratio is minimized. (4) Once the number of party seats to be allocated to each party has been determined under subsection (3), the Chief Electoral Officer will offer those seats to the party candidates on the party list of each Eligible Party, after that party list is adjusted to reflect the removal of; (a) party candidates elected as constituency candidates in the election, and (b) party candidates who are no longer eligible to be members in the Legislative Assembly, such that the first seat will be offered to the party candidate named first in priority on the party list, and subsequent seats shall be offered to party candidates as they appear in descending priority on the party list. (5) The Chief Electoral Officer must make regulations setting out the rules and thresholds governing recounts of party ballots, including judicial recounts under Division 3. Declaration of Final Results 137B (1) At the conclusion of the final count, the district electoral officer must declare the official constituency ballot and official party ballot election results as follows: (a) the results of the final count of constituency ballots, as determined under section 132; (b) the election of the candidate who received the most votes; (c) if no candidate can be declared elected because there is an equality of votes for 2 or more candidates, or if the difference between the votes received by the candidate declared elected and the candidate with the next highest number of votes is less than 1/500 of the total ballots considered, that the results of the election are subject to a required judicial recount under section 139 (5). (d) the results of the final count of party ballots, as determined under section 132, and forward these results to the chief electoral officer (2) After receiving the results of the party ballots from the district electoral officers, the chief electoral officer shall declare which party candidates have been elected to the Legislative Assembly. (3) The results and election as declared under subsections (1) and (2) are final subject only to a judicial recount under Division 3 of this Part or a declaration under Part 8. *** 51. Form 2 of Schedule 1 is repealed and the followed substituted: Form 2A ORDINARY CONSTITUENCY BALLOT [graphic] Form 2B ORDINARY PARTY BALLOT [graphic] 52. Form 3 of Schedule 1 is repealed and the following substituted: Form 3A WRITE-IN BALLOT FOR CONSTITUENCY CANDIDATE [graphic] Form 3B WRITE-IN PARTY BALLOT [graphic]
