Electoral Reform committee  They would be the candidate from their party who did the best in their riding.

Electoral Reform committee  Well, that's when the seat is decided, but to see how the party is seen in the area, the preferential vote would be...and we would try to match seats to the proportional vote.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, in that area.

Electoral Reform committee  Well, after the ridings are won—

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. It's the popular vote that determines whether the party wins a seat. Then we look at who's going to fill it. It's not from a list; it's from the—

Electoral Reform committee  I mean within that region. Actually, they come very close.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. In 2008 it seemed like the Greens had roughly 6% of the vote, and they had roughly 6% of representatives. Out of 138 ridings, the Greens would have won nine.

Electoral Reform committee  What I'm trying to do is give meaning to people's votes. First of all, we have the riding seats, so every time a riding seat is won, we've got some votes for that party represented, so we just subtract whatever they have in seats and votes.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. What we're trying to do is give meaning to everybody's vote, so it's the party with the most unrepresented votes that wins like the last seat; there's at least one that is only partially represented.

Electoral Reform committee  There would have been two Conservatives, one Green, two Liberals, and one NDP.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. How many unrepresented votes did those other parties have?

Electoral Reform committee  Sorry, run that by me again, please.

Electoral Reform committee  That's two out of six. Yes, I think they're fairly well represented by comparison—

Electoral Reform committee  One member for 8%: yes, that's the last seat. Those are the last seats that go. But—

Electoral Reform committee  Do you think that 6% unrepresented votes is worth more than 8% unrepresented votes? That's.... I don't understand the question. I'm sorry.