Not only does it waste votes, as mentioned above, but it also restricts voter choice. In a federal election, voters are given a choice of Members of Parliaments to vote for. If the majority of MPs elected are from the same party, for example the conservative, than that party comes into power and its leader becomes Prime Minister. This causes an issue if a voter does not agree with the national party and its representative in his or her constituency. This means the voter must choose to vote for the best suited candidate for the constituency, or to vote for a different candidate in order to support the national party. Another flaw to the first-past-the-post system is that voters can be misrepresented in the House of Commons. Population determines electoral districts; therefore, if a province has a larger population, it will have more Members of Parliament. Half of those sitting in the House of Commons will be from Quebec and Ontario, which house more than half of Canada’s population. This means that the House of Commons will have a very Eastern focus, and act in its best interest. British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces are very
Not only does it waste votes, as mentioned above, but it also restricts voter choice. In a federal election, voters are given a choice of Members of Parliaments to vote for. If the majority of MPs elected are from the same party, for example the conservative, than that party comes into power and its leader becomes Prime Minister. This causes an issue if a voter does not agree with the national party and its representative in his or her constituency. This means the voter must choose to vote for the best suited candidate for the constituency, or to vote for a different candidate in order to support the national party. Another flaw to the first-past-the-post system is that voters can be misrepresented in the House of Commons. Population determines electoral districts; therefore, if a province has a larger population, it will have more Members of Parliament. Half of those sitting in the House of Commons will be from Quebec and Ontario, which house more than half of Canada’s population. This means that the House of Commons will have a very Eastern focus, and act in its best interest. British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces are very