Minority Rules, Revisited: Who Actually Votes with Whom?
By Erick VillagomezLast April, shortly after Vancouver’s by-election, I turned the result into a game. It was admittedly a geeky one. Going into the by-election, ABC controlled seven of Vancouver City Council’s eleven seats and had demonstrated remarkable voting discipline. Two vacant seats couldn’t change that majority. But they could change the political dynamics around it. So I posed a question: If voters wanted to challenge an overwhelmingly dominant governing bloc, which combination... Read more
