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[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

It would depend on how you set up your proportional system. There's a million ways to do it. Under my favorite system, 5-member proportional districts, yes, Harvey would have been elected. The legislator is cut into districts, each district has five members, who are elected using some proportional or semi-proportional method (again, I like harmonic approval). Harvey likely would have won one of the seats in his local district.

I'd have to look up the previous method San Francisco used in order to understand how the council used to work. The proportional method might have been pretty terrible.