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Wilf Day
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posted 21 February 2004 02:07 AM
By my estimation, of the top 21 ridings where the NDP has already nominated or the incumbent is standing again, 9 have female candidates, about 43%. Quite good, I think.That's Alexa McDonough, Susan MacAlpine - Gillis, Peggy Nash, Irene Mathyssen, Judy Wasylycia - Leis, Bev Desjarlais, Lorene Mahoney, Libby Davies and Jean Crowder. Should others be added?
From: Port Hope, Ontario | Registered: Oct 2002
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Wilf Day
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posted 21 February 2004 04:22 PM
quote: Originally posted by radiorahim: I think that party "lists" in a P.R. system would allow the parties to correct many of the problems that are inherent in FPTP.
True, but it's not the whole answer. Suppose Saskatchewan had eight local seats and six provincial at-large MPs. Suppose the NDP won five of the local seats and got 36% of the vote. The NDP share of the 14 seats is five seats. If it did that well in the local seats, it doesn't qualify for any MPs from the provincial list. Unlikely, but possible. More likely it would win three local seats and two from the provincial list. Knowing the NDP, that would be one man and one woman from the provincial list, if it was "zippered" (alternating men and women.) In fact, if the three local seats were all won by men, and the same men had top positions on the provincial list, the "top-up" process would skip over those men and give the two list positions to women. But it's still important to nominate women in local seats.
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radiorahim
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posted 21 February 2004 07:34 PM
It depends on the P.R. system that's used of course...whether its a "pure" system or some kind of MMP system.I tend to think we'd probably end up with an MMP system of some sort as you suggest. Of course in an MMP system it would be very important to run women and other under represented groups as "local" candidates too And I don't think it would be necessary to "zipper" the "list" candidates...could just make sure that the under-represented groups were at the top of the "list". That might result in women being the majority...but hey...nothing wrong with that...men have been the majority for the last century.
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Jesse Hoffman
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posted 21 February 2004 07:51 PM
One of the things I find most encouraging about these statistics, is that all these women are very strong candidates in very winnable ridings. I think that, Alexa McDonough, Susan MacAlpine - Gillis, Peggy Nash, Judy Wasylycia - Leis, Bev Desjarlais, Libby Davies, Jean Crowder, Nettie Wiebe, Mary-Woo Sims (if she defeats Ian Wadell for the nomination), and quite possibly Irene Mathyssen and Lorene Mahoney will most likely all be elected. It looks as though will be seeing a lot more women NDP MP's in the house after this election. [ 21 February 2004: Message edited by: Jesse Hoffman ]
From: Peterborough, Ontario | Registered: Jan 2004
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