2018 British Columbia electoral reform referendum
October 22 – December 7, 2018
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Which system should British Columbia use for provincial elections? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outcome | The current First Past the Post voting system | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Question 1 results by electoral district
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| Source: Voting results for the 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform - Elections BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A referendum on electoral reform took place by mail-in ballot between October 22 and December 7, 2018, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. 61.3% of voters supported maintaining the first-past-the-post voting system rather than switching to a proportional representation voting system, which was supported by 38.7% of voters. This was British Columbia's third referendum on electoral reform, following ones in 2005 and 2009.
Voters were asked two questions: first, what electoral system should be used to determine election results—the existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system or a proportional representation (PR) system; and second, what type of proportional voting system should be used if PR were chosen. In the second question, voters were asked to rank three proportional representation voting systems: dual-member proportional representation, mixed-member proportional representation, and rural–urban proportional representation.
The referendum fulfilled an election commitment by the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP) during the 2017 election. Their platform promised a referendum and that the government would actively campaign for electoral reform. Results were released by Elections BC on December 20, 2018.