>about 5% to 10% of our parliament is the Green Party Was curious about this. It represents about 6-12% of the vote. Australian green party regularly gets 10-1

>about 5% to 10% of our parliament is the Green Party Was curious about this. It represents about 6-12% of the vote. Australian green party regularly gets 10-15% of the vote but only ends up with one seat in parliament. Whereas the entirely pointless and self servingly corrupt national party gets 6% of the vote and 16 seats. New Zealand has a different voting system. [0] tldr: if you want democratic outcomes, you need democratic processes. The beautiful thing about multi party systems is you can elect both the party that cares about farmers, and the party that cares about the environment and have them work out some compromises. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zeal...