We are in a desperate need for Electoral Reform, if we see this need or not. The statistics tells us, even if we want to deny it.

In the last Provincial Election in 2009 the percentage of votes cast was only 55.14% of registered voters and only 50.99% of eligible voters. This is the lowest turnout in our history. Over the last 3 decades the voter turnout at Provincial Elections have steadily declined from a high in 1983 of 77.66%. At what point in the voter turnout do we have to reach before we wake-up and see that our system is dying a slow and agonizing death?

The current System is the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) that is ancient and completely UNDEMOCRATIC, it is begging to be changed.

It is interesting to look at history of our Provincial Elections. In 1983 the percentage of eligible voters that actually registered to vote was 90.78% and was the highest percentage until the 2005 election when it jumped from a low 77.14% in 2001 to 93.31 % in 2005. The 4 elections between 1983 and 2005 the percentage of eligible voters that bothered to registered dropped further each election until 2005. What happened in 2005 to regain the interest of the voters?

 It was the issue of ELECTORAL REFORM and the presentation of BC-STV that sparked the interests of the VOTERS.

The 2005 referendum on the BC-STV received 57.69% of the popular vote and 97.47% of the 79 Electoral Districts that actually passed the BC-STV system. It only need to reach the SUPER MAJORITY figure of 60% to actually pass and become our new ELECTORAL SYSTEM. It missed by 2.31%.

BY FAR THE ISSUE OF ELECTORAL REFORM IS THE ISSUE OF INTEREST AMONG THE MAJORITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIANS.