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Yes, but most of the mainland countries have multi-party systems. Hell, the parliament of the Netherlands at one point consisted of 16(!) parties.
by xenobioticants 10y ago
Yes, but most of the mainland countries have multi-party systems. Hell, the parliament of the Netherlands at one point consisted of 16(!) parties.
- tremon 10y agoTo put that in context: that is one party per million residents.
- rvense 10y agoWhen you put it like that, it doesn't really sound like that many parties...
- kriro 10y agoTo me it actually sounds like more. That would mean about 324 parties in the USA.
- bobwaycott 10y agoI like the sound of that.
- gpvos 10y agoWhen that happened, there were fewer residents, so it was more like one party per half million.
- tremon 10y agoAh, I thought the GP was referring to when the LPF split into individual fractions.
- gpvos 10y agoIf I count correctly, the 2003-2006 Tweede Kamer had 9 party fractions in it at the start and had 5 split-off groups, so there were 14 fractions in the end. Maybe there were more somewhere in the meantime? But of course I don't know what xenobioticants was thinking about.
- gpvos 10y ago17; that was in 1918. They quickly increased the electoral threshold to 75% of a seat then. Then, in 1933 when there were 14 parties in parliament again, they increased it to 100%. After that, it has always hovered around 10 parties, and it's still one of the lowest electoral thresholds in the world; most countries have it at 5%-10% of the total vote.