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> 51% of the population 32% vote for candidate/party A, 33% vote for B, 35% vote for C. 65% are not represented. First past the post needs to go. :(
by getsat 15y ago
> 51% of the population
32% vote for candidate/party A, 33% vote for B, 35% vote for C.
65% are not represented. First past the post needs to go. :(
- olalonde 15y agoPerhaps I was understating my case ;)
- electromagnetic 15y agoCanada has a 'majority' government with less than 40% of the vote. The depressing thing is that in the majority of areas that the Conservatives won, they won only because they purposefully split the vote between the Liberals and NDP who are politically a few notches apart. Now we have the first government ever in a Westminster Democracy that the Prime Minister lost to a vote of no-confidence for breaching parliamentary conduct and we turn his minority government to a majority. Fucking Canadians are idiots, 40% of them at least.
- mahyarm 15y agoActually, out of the entire population of Canada (including people who can't vote), only 10% voted for the conservative party. Similar numbers happened when Chretien was first voted in too. It's just a feature of FPTP in general. Being voted in contempt of government is only practically possible in minority governments and most of the time Canada has had majority governments.
- Andrew_Quentin 15y agoConsidering that not all those eligible to vote, do vote, the numbers may be much lower, or perhaps higher.