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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Municipal politics are local by definition. If you had one big group to vote for I'm pretty sure you'd end up with party lists, which I wouldn't want at all.
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Well, here's one example of the back side of this coin: Druh Farrell was elected by 11,909 voters in her ward (over 10,657 votes for runner-up candidate). This is approximately 1% of the Calgary population. Yet, the amount of influence Druh Farrell exerts on Calgary's appearance, planning policy and economic development JUST through her being a perennial member of Calgary Planning Commission is enormous. I don't want to speculate if she'd be re-elected in a no-ward system; but if she were, that would be a better confirmation of her political and planning aspirations regarding Calgary; and if she weren't, well...