Electoral Insight – Review of Electoral Systems

All Issues

June 1999

• The Chief Electoral Officer's Message
  Jean-Pierre Kingsley
  
  
• Introduction
  Alain Pelletier
  
  
• Criteria for Assessing Electoral Systems
  André Blais
  
  A review of the criteria for assessing existing and proposed electoral systems
  
  
• Plurality-majority Electoral Systems: A Review
  John C. Courtney
  
  A review of the advantages and disadvantages of the first past the post, alternative vote, block vote and two-round systems
  
  
• Proportional and Semi-proportional Electoral Systems: Their Potential Effects on Canadian Politics
  Heather MacIvor
  
  Consideration of the single transferable vote, single non-transferable vote, list-proportional representation and mixed-member plurality systems
  
  
• A Summary of the Jenkins Report (United Kingdom)
  Alain Pelletier
  
  A summary of the report of the Independent Commission on the Voting System
  
  
• Right-to-vote Activist Still Stands Tall
  But Who Was Nellie McClung?
  Wayne Brown
  
  The life and accomplishments of Canada's most formidable women's rights leader
  
  
• Australia: The 1999 Referendum on the Republic
  Margaret Meneghel and Helen Gladstones
  
  Getting ready to vote on whether Australia should become a republic
  
  
• Electoral News in Brief
  
  
• Electoral Facts
  Wayne Brown
  
  In this first edition of a regular column, a look back at the electoral "firsts" in Canada this century