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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I wonder if it makes sense to look at instant-runoff voting for municipal elections. With 30 mayoral candidates, there are a lot fo ineffective votes going on. Same with indivdual wards, where you may have 2 or 3 conservative candidates, and same on the other side. That way, you actually get a representative that covers the leaning of the riding, rather than the one that benefited from a vote split.
Kinda thinking about Ward 7 here, but Ward 4 also suffered from it.
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I mentioned that in a thread earlier this month also. I mean I get that a lot of the 27 mayoralty candidates were not serious contenders. But if we cut that down until someone had 50% + 1 it might have been a better way to do this.