The Rural-Urban PR model proposed by the Attorney General for BC builds on the work of previous commissions and assemblies, combining

Mixed Member Proportional

and

Single Transferable Vote

to meet the challenges of BC’s geography. A model like this was proposed federally in 2016 by Canada’s former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley, and something very similar to this is used in Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.

Rural Urban offers the ability to tailor the voting system according to the different needs across the province. Citizens would have a greater selection of MLAs to approach with concerns, since MLAs from several different parties would be representing them. This system provides maximum voter choice (often including a choice among candidates from the same party) and, therefore, the least party control over which MLAs are elected. Proportionality is assured on a regional scale.