With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

Critically, proportional representation would also abolish gerrymandering, because there are simply no districts for politicians to meddle with. Under this system, a party that wins the most votes for ...

The census is done every 10 years. As a result of the movement of our population, lines for electoral districts must be changed to maintain the rule of equal number of people in electoral districts.

2022 appears to be yet another year in which the “lesser evil” narrative has driven much public debate. While the anger with Democrats for not making meaningful action toward fulfilling their campaign ...

Rob Shaw has spent more than 17 years covering B.C. politics, now reporting for CHEK News and writing for BIV. He is the ...

The Election Commission has announced the application dates for political parties wishing to contest in the coming House of ...

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