Norman views of hospitality

Ward, Janet

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“…In summary, though, the most common deviation from single member plurality in Canadian elections was not STV or indeed any form of proportional representation, but dual-or multi-member districts electedbypluralityvoting.Byhavingfewerconstituenciesthanseats(andsometimesalotfewer,asin New Brunswick), the biases built into plurality voting were clearly exacerbated. Looking after World WarTwoat62dual-memberdistrictelectionsinthefederalelectionsfrom1887to1945, Ward(1967Ward( [c. 1946:126)notedthattheseyielded30electionswithtwoConservativeselected(includingoncewhere bothwereacclaimed),24electionswithtwoLiberalselected,andonly8electionswhichweresplit,that is,withoneConservativeandoneLiberalelected.Forhispart, Qualter(1970:122)stressesgenerally that:…”

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Seat Imbalance in Provincial Elections Since 1900: A Quantitative Explanation

Siaroff

2009

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The focus of this research note is on the causes of imbalanced, if not indeed lopsided, election results that yield dominance within provincial legislatures. Two alternative areas of explanation are assessed here. The first relates to electoral system factors. Certainly, the single member plurality electoral system and its resulting disproportionality is a key part of the argument here. Yet this cannot be the whole story, not least because election results are not so lopsided in every province, nor indeed at the federal level. Thus what also will be assessed in this area are two other, related, aspects of elections: the total size of the assembly and the number of individual constituencies, as well as relevant party system factors.

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Section: Electoralsystemfactorsandelectoraldistortionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Seat Imbalance in Provincial Elections Since 1900: A Quantitative Explanation

Siaroff

2009

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Norman views of hospitality

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Seat Imbalance in Provincial Elections Since 1900: A Quantitative Explanation

Seat Imbalance in Provincial Elections Since 1900: A Quantitative Explanation

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