Conservative leader Andrew Scheer holds up his ballot after marking his choice at a polling station in his riding in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada October 21, 2019. Adrian Wyld/Pool via REUTERS

The election may be over but according to some Canadians, there’s still much left to be done when it comes to the administrative side of things. Voters took to Twitter to express their feelings on how things work when it comes to casting a vote. Yahoo Canada spoke to several political science experts about the likelihood of things changing by next election.

Electoral reform

The fact that a party could potentially win over 50% of the seats and 100% of the power with less than 33% of the vote would be considered undemocratic in most parts of the world. In Canada, we call it business as usual due to FPTP. Electoral reform is an urgent priority. #elx43 — Matt W. (@Historian_Matt) October 15, 2019

Some quick math (hope I got it right) based on 2019 Q3 Stats Canada population info on what possible Electoral Reform could look like. Definitely too much power in the east, but unsure enough to make any type of difference in this election @dstaples pic.twitter.com/eWuryrCWtR — JR (@jrowda) October 22, 2019

Tonight the Green Party of Canada received almost 950,000 votes, and the Bloc Qc received about 1.2 million votes. Despite having almost a similar vote count, the GPC won 3 seats and Bloc won 32. That's why we need electoral reform. — Hannah Mackellar (@hmackellar) October 22, 2019

Post #elxn43 PSA: an electoral map doesn't represent the diversity or distribution of political opinion across Canada.

Conservatives got (almost) all the seats in the West, with only 53% of the vote.

That's a call for electoral reform, not #wexit https://t.co/rVth8AsN4h pic.twitter.com/D96UviLjZl — Rob Taller-in-Real-Life Wallbridge (@songberryfarm) October 22, 2019

If Trudeau would have came good on his promise for electoral reform like many wanted, Andrew Scheer would be the Prime Minister of Canada with a Minority Government. — Jacob 🥅 (@paddle_down) October 22, 2019

wait — so the conservatives got a million more votes than the Liberals but Trudeau gets to form a government? yikes canada needs electoral reform this is wack — epilepticjew (@epilepticjew) October 22, 2019

Some Canadians are frustrated with the country’s first-past-the-post system, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once promised to end. Allan Tupper, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, says the issue is an impediment for governments to pursue. In B.C., for example, there’s been three referendums on the issue, yet votes continue to choose the first-past-the-post system for provincial elections.

“There’s a lot of people who see some problems with the status quo and they’ve been noted for a long time,” he tells Yahoo Canada News. “But when they get the opportunity to change it, they don’t. And there’s been no single alternative.”

Peggy Nash, a former Member of Parliament, says that unless Canadians are involved in the issue of proportional representation, most people see electoral reform as being too complicated.

“If the status quo is working okay, maybe they think they shouldn’t opt for change,” she says.

Nash stresses that it wouldn’t be too complicated to shift electoral protocol and uses New Zealand as an example of a country that successfully moved from a British parliamentary system to one that was proportionally representative.

“They did it for a trial period and then decided to make it a permanent thing,” she says.





B.C. polls

The final polls have closed as British Columbia begins to come in. — Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) October 22, 2019

CBC is called the race before British Columbia polls closed it looks like. Seems strange. — Mr. Dowden (@SirDowden) October 22, 2019

Coordinating the tallying of polls across different time zones and timing the release of results is a long-standing issue in the country.

“I don’t know how they can really stop this issue, particularly the way people communicate and the availability of things online other than to make a complete prohibition on results to be released until the end of voting in B.C.,” says Tupper.