What is mixed member proportional?

Mixed member proportional is one of the three proportional representation systems that British Columbians can choose from in the 2018 electoral reform referendum. CBC's Justin McElroy explains how it works.

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[sunshinenOJ]

Most countries in Europe, as well as Russia, South Africa, New Zealand and Israel favor some form of party-list system because it opens up the political process beyond one or two dominating political parties.

proportional representation (PR) = If n% of the electorate support a particular political party, then roughly n% of seats will be won by that party.

What is List PR? = proportional representation in which voters choose among parties rather than among candidates. Votes are awarded to parties in proportion to the votes they receive

[larbioulhadj]

we explain badly, didn't helped me at all

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Doesn't inspire a ton of confidence when every single different flavour of MMP System on the table has many unknowns. Perhaps these details should've been ironed out before calling for a referendum because voters still don't know exactly what they're getting into with MMP.

[screech]

This sounds like we would have some unelected officials and I would not be ok with that.

[derick]

The whole point of the Westminster system is to vote for your representative and not the political party. We should not be changing the way we electe people because a party receives a large popular vote.

The only change I would support is keeping it the same, but with a single transferable vote.

If your 1st pick doesnt have that much support your vote will go to the next candidate that you like and ranked 2nd. Etc.. untill somone has more than 50%