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Originally Posted by FireFly
I once created my own form of electoral system.... I made it up while writing an exam too... Got an A on the exam so it couldn't have been a horrible idea. It's a form of MMP where the 'top-up' seats go to those with the highest % of votes while still losing their seat. For example, if the Green party gets 5% of the vote for a total of 15 seats, we would start with the fictitious 'Joe Schmo' from Burnaby who won 12% of the votes in his riding, and give him a seat. Then we'd move to 'Harry Larry' from Kenora with 11.75% of the votes in his riding, and give him a seat... and so on and so forth until there is proportional representation. If that makes any sense.
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That's kind of a cool idea, but would need tweaking. Those in a tough race (against tougher opponents) wouldn't get seats but those basically acclaimed due to weak opponents are guaranteed seats.
How about something where all the "winners" of ridings get seats along with the top percentage of losers (based on the proportional representation you describe above)? It'd be a combination of what we have now and a more true representational system.