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That's actually thanks to single-member-electorates. As long as you have single memeber electorates, you can have one party narrowly win a whole lot while anot
by caf 7y ago
That's actually thanks to single-member-electorates.
As long as you have single memeber electorates, you can have one party narrowly win a whole lot while another party wins crushing landslides in fewer. In the Canadian election the Conservatives 'wasted' a lot of votes running up the popular vote scoreboard in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
- lambertsimnel 7y agoI agree, but arguably switching to multi-member districts entails replacing FPTP. (Another way of looking at it is that closed party-list PR, single non-transferable vote and/or multiple non-transferable vote are generalisations of FPTP to multi-member districts. The non-transferable vote systems have a lot of disadvantages.)