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It is a pretty historic election considering it was perceived to be the most boring election.
You Got that right. What an amazing day and night. Voted for the first time and shocked at how blue Ontario went.
Or how a once strong party is now restricted to small parts of Toronto and some Atlantic provinces, or the loss of the Bloc, or the rise of a party long seen as just a tiny portion of the opposition.
If your election was even half as boring as this conversation…
It is way more interesting than the US. To predict US elections:
If and only if the economy is doing well will the same party get in.
At least if you were to bet on our elections in Vegas, the pay outs can be interesting.
Well I find it interesting, as my brother is soon to emigrate there. And I have cousins there. So who’s the Blues and what’s the Bloc and which party came out of nowhere to win? And does any of this have anything to do with the Grand Banks?
Your parties over there don’t do preferencing do they?
No preferencing. Blue = Conservatives. NDP (3rd place party normally) became the official opposition. The bloc is Quebec’s sovereignist party. Liberals, the typical popular part was reduced to 10% of the seats. Two leaders (bloc and liberals) Did not win their own seats.
thenewnick said: Two leaders (bloc and liberals) Did not win their own seats.
Wow, that would have messed everything up. A lot of people in Australia seem to view party leader = party. I can imagine all the cries of “I didn’t vote this person in to be our leader!”.
Thanks guys! Well, here in the UK we’re going to have a referendum on whether to change the electoral system to a much fairer, actually representative system. The two parties opposing it are the Tories (conservatives) and the BNP (racist nazis). The BNP have no capability of rational thought, so who knows what they’re thinking, and the conservatives have got in to government a number of times on the current system of first past the post, and haven’t got a hope in hell of winning under the new, fairer system.
So I’ll be voting YES tomorrow then.
Well, unless there is fixed elections, FPTP is the best system. Minority governments enjoy calling elections here. Provided fix elections, I would consider AV electoral reform. MMP Is just plain stupid.
AAaaaand the populatuin decided against the AV voting system. Because they’re stupid.
“The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter” – Winston Churchill
“The second greatest argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average elected official” – Me.
We had a referendum on an MMP system. It failed too both in FPTP and popular vote. But I don’t support MMP at all. I don’t like this party list that it depends on. Never will I give up my regional MP.
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