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What an amazing result - a complete wipeout of the opposition!
It is often said that the First Past the Post voting system is a good system because it tends to guarantee the winning party a strong majority.
But a wipeout result is surely taking this argument too far.
By all means have a voting system that rewards the winning party with a comfortable working majority, but at the same time, guarantee that there is an oppsosition with enough seats to keep the government on its toes and hold the government to account.
Lopsided or wipeout result seem to be fairly common in Canada at the provincial level.
Syd1435 00:01, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
How did this Assembly run? Were there alot of free votes, or was it like a mini-dictatorship?
Keeperoftheseal 17:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I remember hearing that they split the party into moderate/left leaning wings so as to have the appearence of an opposition? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.95.62 ( talk) 10:27, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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What an amazing result - a complete wipeout of the opposition!
It is often said that the First Past the Post voting system is a good system because it tends to guarantee the winning party a strong majority.
But a wipeout result is surely taking this argument too far.
By all means have a voting system that rewards the winning party with a comfortable working majority, but at the same time, guarantee that there is an oppsosition with enough seats to keep the government on its toes and hold the government to account.
Lopsided or wipeout result seem to be fairly common in Canada at the provincial level.
Syd1435 00:01, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)
How did this Assembly run? Were there alot of free votes, or was it like a mini-dictatorship?
Keeperoftheseal 17:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I remember hearing that they split the party into moderate/left leaning wings so as to have the appearence of an opposition? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.237.95.62 ( talk) 10:27, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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Link to the Report of the Chief Electoral Officer is broken. The link is here. Don'tDropThatTotoro ( talk) 03:12, 3 November 2015 (UTC) Don'tDropThatTotoro ( talk) 03:12, 3 November 2015 (UTC)