It’s silly to use the geographical map of Canada to show election results. Land doesn’t vote, people do.
Image source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/28/world/canada/results-canada-federal-election.html
Land doesn’t vote, but my neighbours do, and I want to know whether I need to spit on them or not.
Well, judging from how Canadians usually behave, those weirdos over there are always to spit on, but we don’t because they’re actually kind of all right, so we keep it polite and passive aggressive. Until someone talks about Celine Dion in a hostile tone.
In the states, the land actually votes. California has 40 times more citizens than South Dakota. But they both get two senators. And we don’t elect our president by popular vote, but by state electors. That’s probably why election maps in many North American English markets fall into this trap.
Making first past the post worse is a challenge. I’m proud of Americans for raising the bar of terrible voting systems
and with a minimum amount of electors per state, land votes in the electoral college, too!
i hate it and now i feel bad
A tiny bit true here in Canada too as not every riding has the same number of people, with some smaller ridings having 1/4 to 1/5 as many people as the more populous ones. That said, it’s in our constitution that more ridings are created as the population grows so the problem is much more diluted, and having a slight tilt to the less populous areas helps offset the “tyranny of majority” that can happen when it’s “fair”. All in all, I think it’s a decent system
