Canada’s electoral system is referred to as a “first past the post” system. The candidate with the most votes in a riding wins a seat in the House of Commons and represents that riding as its Member of Parliament (MP).

This is a list of British Columbia’s 87 provincial electoral districts (also colloquially known as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by an electoral redistribution that took place in 2015, which came into effect for the 2017 election.

Current federal electoral districts Vancouver Centre (1914–present) Vancouver East (1933–present) Vancouver Granville (2012-present) Vancouver Kingsway (1952–1987), (1996–present)

There are many variations in electoral systems, but the most common systems are first-past-the-post voting, Block Voting, the two-round (runoff) system, proportional representation and ranked voting.

The most common method used in U.S. elections is the first-past-the-post system, where the highest-polling candidate wins the election. Under this system, a candidate only requires a plurality of votes to win, rather than an outright majority.

Currently, as in most states, California’s votes in the electoral college are distributed in a winner-take-all manner; whichever presidential candidate wins the state’s popular vote wins all 55 of the state’s electoral votes.

All jurisdictions use a winner-take-all method to choose their electors, except for Maine and Nebraska, which choose one elector per congressional district and two electors for the ticket with the highest statewide vote.

Note that 48 out of the 50 States award Electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis (as does the District of Columbia).

Plurality voting is an electoral system in which each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the candidate who polls more than any other counterpart (a plurality) is elected. In a system based on multi-member districts, it may be referred to as winner-takes-all or bloc voting.

Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, do not follow this winner-take-all method. In those states, electoral votes are proportionally allocated. Can a candidate win the electoral vote, but lose the popular vote? Yes.

An election for president of the United States happens every four years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

As a result, states variously applied the statewide winner-take-all method (e.g., New York), district- and state-level winner-take-all (e.g., California), or proportional allocation (e.g., Massachusetts).

Trump wins all 13 Super Tuesday primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Vermont. New York cancels its Republican primary after Trump is the only candidate to submit the required number of names of his delegates.

New Hampshire has held a presidential primary since 1916 and started the tradition of being the first presidential primary in the United States starting in 1920.