Alberta Voting Results - First-Past-The-Post Problems

[Thorin]

Try resizing the Twitter Bootstrap page, it condenses menus, alters buttons and layout on the fly

One of my co-workers put together a cool demo yesterday, he used it in this election dashboard site (he built it over a weekend!)
http://abvoteresults.mastermaq.ca/

Pretty neat stuff!

Instead of hijacking that other thread I thought I should start a new one for this topic.

The PC party:
- won 61 of 87 districts, or 70.11%
- had 44.4% of the total votes
- 56.92% of eligible voters turned out
- 70.11% of the government with 25.27% of the total available votes

The Wildrose party:
- won 17 of 87 districts, or 19.54%
- had 34.3% of the total votes
- 56.92% of eligible voters turned out
- 19.54% of the government with 19.52% of the total available votes

The PC party had roughly one-third more votes, yet roughly three-and-a-half more seats.  I've casually suggested in the past that the electoral system needs to change to offset this imbalance, and the method I've suggested is that each elected official carries only as much power as they received votes.  That would get us a lot closer to fair and balanced representation without a huge change in electoral districts or anything like that.

[Darren Dirt]

Thinking about this week's one-man PC leadership race I re-discovered this thread; related to the issue I offer this painfully accurate web comic:

http://abstrusegoose.com/183

"...same as the old boss..." (earnest, optimistic folks WILL get fooled again )

[Mr. Analog]

I don't think it's that close because this is Alberta and the only choices are Right or further Right, kinda like the US