Re: Is our election system unfair?

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From: ria
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00

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In <Edda1995Jun4.005315.2197@news.compulink.com>, apnalli@idirect.com (Pangster) writes:
>Consider this....

>Theoretically, if 40% vote Liberal, the Grits should hold 40% of the seats.
>Likewise, for the second place Reformers (I assume) who should hold the
>next largest percentage of seats based on total votes, and so on.

>I think we should vote for the LEADER.  The one with the most votes must
>therefore have the confidence of the majority of the population.  Votes
>can then be divided regionally, and if the people of Brampton South were
>more inclined to vote NDP (for example) then that area would have an NDP
>MPP and that would count toward that party's pecentage of seats.

And if the NDP gets 49% in every riding and the Tories get 51% in every riding
which ridings will send NDP members to Queen's Park?

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From: ria@mail.inforamp.net
Subject: Re: Is our election system unfair?
Date: 1995/06/04
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