Opponents of electoral reform in British Columbia have claimed that if BC-STV
were implemented, all the MLAs in the rural districts would come from the
biggest town in the multi-member electoral district (= constituency = riding).

Some idea of what might really happen can be seen from what actually happens in
the rural electoral districts in Ireland which uses STV-PR to elect the TDs to
the Dáil Éireann.

Using data from the Tithe an Oireachtais website and from the websites of the
various political parties, Antony Hodgson has prepared a Google map showing the
distribution of the home addresses of the TDs in five of Ireland's more rural
electoral districts:


http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msa=0&ll=52.822683,-8.162842&spn=2.987736,7.075195\
&z=7&msid=100686598902148055059.0004637343be49550140b

It seems clear that STV-PR gives representation of party AND of locality when
that is what the voters want.

JG