Headline history: Fight goes on for proportional representation

The traditional first-past-the-post voting system almost ended in B.C. a little over two decades ago, but was stopped short of the 60 per cent needed.
A guest column in the April 5, 2005, edition of the Nanaimo News Bulletin was written by the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, which encouraged people to vote for a form of proportional representation in a provincial referendum on the issue in May of that year.
If the referendum was successful, proportional representation would have re