Short Name Abbreviations

Short names are a consise summary of the key parameters for a simulation.

The first two letters are the riding design with a possible variant. They are:

• FP: 338 single-member ridings
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• SM: STV with medium-sized multi-member ridings
• SS: STV with small multi-member ridings
• MS: MMP with small regions
• MM: MMP with medium-sized regions
• ME: MMP with 338 local ridings (enlarged Parliament)
• ML: MMP with 338 local ridings (enlarged Parliament; provincial regions)
• RS: Rural-Urban with more single-member ridings
• RE: Rural-Urban with more single-member ridings and an enlarged Parliament
• RE: Rural-Urban with more single-member ridings and 10% top-up; provincial regions
• RM: Rural-Urban with more multi-member ridings and fewer single-member ridings
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• Ki: Kingsley's model (similar to Rural-Urban, but with no top-up seats)
• ER: ERRE RU that gets top-ups from large multi-member ridings
• ER: ERRE RU that gets top-ups from large multi-member ridings; region = province
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The third letter is the election strategy used in single-member ridings. They are:

• F:

  First-Past-The-Post -- the candidate with the most votes wins.

• A:

  Alternative Vote: Elect one winner using a ranked ballot. Drop the least popular candidate and redistribute their ballots to the next choice candidate until one candidate has at least 50%+1. Use a 2nd choice function based on Ekos polling.

The fourth letter is the election strategy used in multi-member ridings. They are:

• S:

  Single Transferable Vote: Elect one or more winners using a ranked ballot. Establish a 'quota' or maximum number of votes required to be elected. Call that number 'Q'.

  If a candidate has more than Q votes, declare the candidate elected and transfer any votes more than Q to other candidates according to the preferences expressed on the ballots. If no candidate has Q votes, drop the one with the least votes and transfer their votes to other candidates according to the preferences expressed on the ballots.

• L:

  Calculate the number of votes for each party and from that the determine the number of seats won by each party using a highest averages method -- specifically as described in "Quota system". After calculating the number of seats for each party, make a list of all the candidates for the party, ordered by number of votes in the 2015 election, and choose the first n candidates as the winners.

• rcSTV:

  An STV-like strategy that guarantees electing a candidate in each old riding that makes up a multi-member riding.

• x:

  No election strategy is applicable in this situation.