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Canadian Election Procedures
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How do the MP’s win their seats in Parliament?
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• General election = a nation-wide or province wide election in all ridings/constituencies.
• By-elections - fill vacancies between regularly scheduled elections.
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Our elections are now scheduled every 4 years
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Procedures• 1. Gov General (Lieutenant-Gov / provincial)
dissolves parliament
• 2. Candidates are nominated in ridings (Nomination by acclamation means no one contested).
• 3. Enumeration - preparation of voter’s list
• 4. Campaigning (person previously holding seat & re-campaigning is called the incumbent)
• 5. Polling stations
• 6. Tabulation - counting the votes
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Then What?• The party who won the most seats forms the
government
• That party has the mandate to govern the country / province for 4 years.
• the leader of that party is the prime minister
• He / she forms the cabinet (ministers) by appointing cabinet positions.
• The cabinet members each get a portfolio (department or area of responsibility)
• The Governor-General (Lieut-Gov) reads the Speech from the Throne outlining the governments plans.
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Canada’s Federal House of CommonsCanada’s Federal House of Commons
Canada’s Federal House of Commons after May 2, 2012 General Election
Party ElectedCONSERVATIVE 167NDP 102LIBERAL 34BQ 4
GREEN 1Total 308
The conservatives have a majority government because the other parties cannot outnumber them in a vote.
IE 102 + 34 + 4 + 1 = 141
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First past the post system vs.
Proportional Representation
• First past the post system = the person with the most individual votes represents the riding in Parliament.
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Elizabeth May, our single Green Party MP, won her “seat” in the Saanich-Gulf Islands at the last general election.
Candidate Party Votes
Green Elizabeth May 31890
Conservative Gary Lunn 25544
NDP Edith Loring-Kuhanga 8185
Liberal Renée Hetherington 4208
Total turn-out from eligible voters 68 987 / 91 673 (75%)
How many voters are not represented in Ottawa?(Round to nearest 1000).
Answer = almost 39 000
6346morevotes
than Lunn
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1996 Provincial Election
Party
NDP
Liberal
Seats won VotesPopular vote
(share of individual votes %)
39 624,395 39%
33 661,929 42%
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Proportional Representation • Whatever % of the population
votes for a party across the country = the same % of seats that
party gets in Parliament.
• Eg: House of Commons = 100 seats
• 50% of voters vote NDP50 seats go to NDP
• 25% of voters vote Liberal 25 of seats go to Liberals
• 25% of voters vote Green25 seats to Green
... a proposed solution
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Parliamentary debate can be lively
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