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Representative Proportion Voting

As detailed in my blog post, representative proportion voting is a electoral system I invented for Canada that maintains the local representation that FPTP offers for independent runners, while assigning seats to parties in a proportional manner. This code was developed in order to demonstrate how our house of commons would look like.

The analysis this code aided created be seen here.

To reproduce my results, simply install the packages in requirements.txt via pip install -r requirements.txt and run python rpv.py in your terminal. If you are not on Windows, you may need to use pip3 and python3.

Snippet of Blog

Vote distribution for all parties (that got at least one vote) in the 2021 Canadian Election

  • There were 338 districts in this election.
  • Total number of votes counted was 17,034,224
  • Total votes that went to a party is 17,008,6
Party Votes Vote %
Conservative 5,747,410 33.74%
Liberal 5,556,629 32.62%
NDP-New Democratic Party 3,036,329 17.82%
Bloc Québécois 1,301,615 7.64%
People's Party - PPC 840,993 4.94%
Green Party 396,988 2.33%
Free Party Canada 47,252 0.28%
Maverick Party 35,178 0.21%
Independents 25,605 0.15%
Parties that got less than 10,000 votes
Party Votes Vote %
Christian Heritage Party 8,985 0.05%
No Affiliation 6,876 0.04%
Parti Rhinocéros Party 6,085 0.04%
Libertarian 4,765 0.03%
Communist 4,700 0.03%
Marxist-Leninist 4,532 0.03%
Pour l'Indépendance du Québec 2,934 0.02%
Animal Protection Party 2,546 0.01%
Marijuana Party 2,031 0.01%
VCP 1,246 0.01%
Centrist 648 0.00%
National Citizens Alliance 476 0.00%
Parti Patriote 244 0.00%
CFF - Canada's Fourth Front 105 0.00%
Nationalist 52 0.00%

FPTP Results

Party Seats Seats %
People's Party - PPC 0 0%
Green Party 2 0.59%
NDP-New Democratic Party 25 7.40%
Bloc Québécois 32 9.47%
Conservative 119 35.21%
Liberal 160 47.34%

RPV Results

The Hare quota is 50,322.

Party Seats Seats %
Green Party 8 2.37%
People's Party - PPC 17 5.03%
Bloc Québécois 26 7.69%
NDP-New Democratic Party 61 18.05%
Liberal 111 32.84%
Conservative 115 34.02%

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