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streamofthesky posted...

See, that shit would piss me off and make me feel the election was stolen, if 60-70% vote left of center and a right wing party wins.

It's pretty annoying, but people don't seem to want to change.

I live in BC, arguably the most left-wing province in confederation, and we had a referendum a couple years ago to switch from first-past-the-post to a more representative system (several were on offer if the referendum succeeded). First-past-the-post won and not by a little bit either - over 60% of voters said they wanted to keep the current system.

Voters are dumb sometimes.

streamofthesky posted...

I'd sooner vote for the lesser evil than see the diametrically opposite political party sweep into office with a mandate of *checks notes* 30% of the vote.

No one wins a majority with 30% of the vote - in fact, you probably wouldn't even form government at all with a vote total that low (the 30% figure I gave above is basically the current floor of Conservative support; when they lose all their swing voters, that's usually roughly the vote total they wind up with). You need roughly 40% to have a realistic shot of forming a majority government and if you don't have a majority, you need the opposition's votes in order to get anything done, forcing you to work with them (a situation not dissimilar to a situation in the US where both houses of congress are held by different parties or the president and congress are of different parties). It tends to curtail the worst of the abuses, but the situation is still kind of ridiculous, if you ask me...

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