Talk:2019 Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the 2019 Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Canada: Prince Edward Island Low‑importance

	Canada portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Prince Edward Island.

Elections and Referendums

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums

Politics

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Referendum Bill

I think it would be helpful to expand on the passing of the referendum legislation, and the debate around it. Much was made of the question about whether the bill would be constitutional. After amendments were made (to address these concerns), I believe there were many suggesting there might be a charter challenge. If someone wants to dive into a short summary of the legislative debate as reported in RS, I am sure that would be helpful. Cheers--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:27, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Number of Districts "won" in Infobox

If someone could add the number of districts "won" for each side to the info box that would be great. It really should be included as winning 17 districts was a required for the result to be binding.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 23:53, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The narrowness of STV's defeat

It should be mentioned that a change of a couple hundred votes in each of two districts would have secured STV's victory. The turn-out in District 9 is noteworthy - less than 200 in total voted, as there was no election of a member. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.150.194.17 (talk) 03:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC) ( in answer to below, yes of course i meant to say MMP, not STV)[reply]

What are you talking about? This referendum was not about STV. The referendum was about adopting Mixed Member Proportional. Also 2,406 people voted in District 9. See the results here[1]. --Darryl Kerrigan (talk)

The article notes it was a "narrow" majority for the "No" side in both the lede and results section. I have also added Peter Bevan-Baker's comments that it was "agonizingly close" in the aftermath section. If anyone is aware of any comments about the results from Wade MacLauchlan or Joe Byrne, we should likely add them too.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:10, 25 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]