Certainly, but the system the way it works right now delivers things like this:
BC LIBERALS got 98% of the Seats with only 57% of the vote.
In a sense you are right but this is how things would shake up if you went by the popular vote:
Liberal 113 Seats (Actual: 136)
Conservative 91 Seats (Actual:96)
NDP 48 Seats (Actual: 20)
BLOC 39 Seats (Actual: 54)
Green 13 (Actual: 0)
Combined Ohter 4 (Actual: 1)
So the biggest blow would be the Liberals and the Bloc. (is that bad?)
The Biggest Bonus would go to the Green and the NDP. (heck we the people wanted that!)
You have to look at it in a lot of different ways but in the end the Popular Vote would make a HUGE difference in how are goverment is formed.
The hard part is finding out who would be elected from where, or would the party leaders decide? who knows, but it is a significant difference.
The other thing we need to consider is the the 'non voters' and the 'stategic vote'.
1: 'Non Voters' I happen to live in a riding that is 79% Liberal support, so why should I vote for the conservative government? They cant win so I wont vote. OR I like the Greens but they simply cant win in my riding so I'm not going to bother.
2: 'Strategic Vote' I like the NDP but my riding is very heated between the Conservatives and the Liberals, I HATE the Liberals SO i'll vote conservative to STOP the Liberals.
It totally jades the process and often discourages voters. If you really wanted the CURRENT system to work you'd herd all the like minded people into the Ridings, which is obviously just aboud as flawed as our system
[ June 29, 2004, 06:24: Message edited by: BlackRose ]
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