It should be made clear that Trudeau still rejects proportional representation—a system where parties get seats based on their vote percentage—and continues to partially blame opposition parties for his own inaction. He still prefers a ranked ballot system—where you number your preferred candidates in order on your ballot—which would not have made “every vote count” as he pledged in 2015. A recent article from NDP MP Matthew Green and Joseph Gubbels showcases Trudeau’s flawed approach to reform.
The only positive about this idea is that strictly as a thought experiment you could look back at any given election and see how it would’ve turned out differently. As a real system this doesn’t account for regional representation.
In a certain way it does by over representing districts where the election was close, which can vary every election, but in general all districts are supposed to have about the same number of electors.
The more seats/capita the is the more representative things get so we could keep FPTP and increase the number of seats to make it 80k citizens/districts instead of about 120k as it is now and things would already be much more representative of the population’s will but it wouldn’t account for minor parties getting enough votes at the national level that they should have seats (like my suggestion does).
That’s not really what I meant. Most of the similar proposed proportional systems break down the proportional “evening out” to provinces or smaller regions. Theoretically (although extremely unlikely) if the Bloq lost with 50%-1 votes in every riding they’d have about 12.5% of the overall vote with 0 seats. They’d get 50 of the 62 seats regardless of anything else that happens anywhere else in the country.