Talk:Canadian electoral system

Formatting
A lot of the text has been put in bold. It seems unnecessarily distracting to me, making it look a bit like a ransom note. Am I the only one who thinks so? HistoryBA 14:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Go ahead and try your hand, gotta see different things to know what looks best.

Alot of writing is either in bold or italics, almost like its trying to stress a point. Whats up with that?--Trevorprella (talk) 23:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

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Fixed Election Date Update and Question Regarding NPOV of adding King-Bing affair to the page
There was some incoherency on the page regarding the new fixed election law and the constitutional rule requiring elections every five years. I got fairly well written information from the Elections_in_canada page. I also added information about the King-Bing affair [http:http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/news/1926kingbing.htm] where the Governor General of the day (Byng actually, but it comes up under King-Bing everywhere) denied the Prime Minister an election and asked the next largest party if they form government which they did.

Question: Many thought that the Governor General was going to do the same thing last year when Harper asked for an election in September. In the end she didn't but it was a suspense. Is it to NPOV or POV to add this fact in (written up in a less POV wording)? I ask because I think with the increases in minority governments and (in my view) the fact that we will likely have quite a few of them over the next little while (although there may still be majority governments too) makes it relevant. Marcie (talk) 23:38, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Who on Earth...
...copied this from EC's website? It refers to Elections Canada in the first person! 76.117.247.55 (talk) 23:13, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

== Candidate selection process

Being an American I'm not familiar enough with the process to start it up but this article needs some discussion of how parties go about selecting their candidates for office. AP (talk) 19:32, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Including proportionality in the turnout section
First, it's confusing to jump from turnout to proportionality.

Second, I'm not sure this really fits in this section. Of course disproportional could be one of the reasons turnout is lower, but that should be established before quoting statistics about it.

What do you think?

popular vote
It would be great to have a section explaining how, for example, in 2019 the liberals lost the popular vote but still came out ahead.I still don't quite get this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sara.koopman (talk • contribs) 21:48, 23 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Conservatives had alot of votes in some provinces and not enough in others. 1 vote in Alberta is worth less than 1 vote in Quebec as an example. Certain provinces are over represented in the government. It's not based on geographic size of area, it's not based on population, it just is what it is. Kav2001c (talk) 05:14, 5 March 2021 (UTC)kav2001c