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Mario_VS_DK posted...

One thing I'll say though, is what or who determines who takes the seats the party gains?

This is one of the common complaints against PropRep, especially by those who are fans of regional representation and/or decentralizing power away from party authority (in my opinion a bit of a lost cause given how Canadian politics is set-up, but I understand the sentiment). However, there are ways to address that concern and most of the proposals I've seen regarding implementing PropRep in Canada include some form of a nod to regional selection. For instance:

1) Riding amalgamation/Mixed-Member Proportional Representation. Under this system ridings would be merged to create a smaller number of larger ridings, and each riding would be represented by multiple MPs, elected proportionally based on the vote count within that riding (so, for instance, five ridings would be merged to create one riding represented by 5 MPs - if the results of the election were 55% Liberal, 30% Conservative, 15% NDP, 4% Green, and 1% Other, the seat distribution for that riding would be 3 Liberal, 1 Conservative, and 1 NDP). Under this system, there would be almost no no changes in how members are selected, since each super-riding (formerly five ridings) would pick five candidates to put forward for election.

2) Provincial system. Basically the same as above, but with members chosen on a per-province basis rather than per-riding. This reduces regional representation, but increases granularity of the vote.

3) Another system I've seen put forward but which doesn't have a snappy name, as far as I know, is that candidates would be nominated as normal, but seats would be distributed based on who won the largest proportion of votes in each riding. So, for instance, if the Liberals win 120 seats under this system, the candidates chosen would be selected from the 120 ridings where the Liberals won the largest proportion of the popular vote.

Mario_VS_DK posted...

I would have to actually sit down and do some solid research on what the benefits and negatives to each voting method is to actually know for sure anyways.

If you're interested, CGP Grey has an excellent series of short (~5 minutes each) videos that explain several of the most common voting systems, their strengths and their drawbacks in an entertaining, very easy to understand way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo&list=PL7679C7ACE93A5638
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