A slight majority of Canadians are in favour of conducting the next federal ballot under a different electoral system. 

In a survey conducted by Research Co., 51% of the 803 Canadians surveyed would welcome ditching Canada's current first past the post system.

According to the results, those surveyed would rather vote for the House of Commons through a party-list proportional representation.

Under a party-list system, parties make lists of candidates to be elected, and seats get allocated to each party in accordance with the number of total votes the party receives.

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If Canada's 2019 federal election had been held under the party-list system, the Conservative Party would have finished in first place with the support of 33% of decided voters, followed by the Liberal Party with 32%, the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 18%, the Green Party and the Bloc Québécois each with 6%, and the People’s Party with 4%.

Voters in Alberta and Quebec are more likely to support a change to party-list proportional representation (58% each) than their counterparts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan (53%), Ontario (47%), British Columbia (46%) and Atlantic Canada (45%).

The survey comes after a heated federal election that saw the Conservatives win the popular vote, but the Liberals win the most ridings, resulting in a Liberal minority in Ottawa.

Countries such as Austria, Denmark, Finland, Israel and Spain currently use a  party-list proportional representation.