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Article #5331Re: Conservative party climbs in bed with the USA
From: klunk
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:55
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:55
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>>>If you want to see an ineffective electoral system, then look no farther than >>>Canada. The last true majority government that was elected (i.e., where the >>>majority of voters chose the majority government) was the 1984 election. >>Nope. In that election, the PCs received only 50.03% of the >>popular vote. That's merely a *plurality of actual voters*, not >>a *majority*, and certainly not a majority of eligible voters. > Sorry, but your facts are in error. Let's try again, shall we? 50.03% > constitutes the majority. You can argue semantics all you want, but facts are > facts. http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=plurality > Well well, seems that the two terms are synonymous. > Next time, try a little harder, ok? sorry, snowman, but your definition of "majority" is applicable in only some aspects of a voting process such as a corporate board when referring to holding a majority of shares... and can be described as a "simple majority"... other forms of majority, such as "absolute majority" would assume the above example of 50.03% as a failed approval rating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_majority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_majority
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