In P.E.I., eligible voters, including those as young as 16, will vote in P.E.I.’s electoral reform referendum from October 29 to November 7, online, by phone and in person.
The five options on the ballot will be:
- First-past-the-post, the current system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat.
- First-past-the-post plus leaders, which would also give a seat to
the leader of any party who wins 10 per cent of the provincial popular
vote.
- Dual-member proportional, which assigns half the seats through the
current system and the other half based on the provincial popular vote.
- Mixed-member proportional, which includes district representatives and province-wide members chosen by voters from a party list.
- Preferential voting, in which voters rank all the candidates, and
the second choices of voters who picked lower-ranking candidates are
redistributed until someone wins 50 per cent of the vote.
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