Thursday, 16 July 2015

Toronto Ranked Ballots

Q183: Before the end of 2016, will the City of Toronto decide to use ranked ballots in future municipal elections?
Yes: 25%
(A vote by city council counts as a decision, even if it is later reversed.  The partial use of ranked ballots counts.  This question will be resolved similarly to my previous question about Ottawa ranked ballots)

The Ontario government is currently preparing legislation that would allow cities to use ranked ballots for municipal elections.  Toronto mayor John Tory has indicated that he will support ranked ballots for that city (see article here).  Given that support, I think that ranked ballots are significantly more likely to be adopted in Toronto than in Ottawa.  However, the time-frame of the question may be too short for adoption to take place.

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