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Originally Posted by SebC
I like forms of democracy where you actually need a majority to win. I love that the parties use preferential balloting, because that way I can point to that, when they oppose democratic reform, and ask why first past the post is a good enough system for the general election when it isn't good enough for their own leadership elections. Why does one need a majority to become the leader of a party, but not to become the leader of the country?
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In a 3 party system all a preferential ballot does is ensure the middle party always wins. So in Canada it would mean endless liberal majority governments. Cycling though different political parties and being able to remove parties in power is important.
At least proportional rep gives you endless minority governments where parties are forced to compromise. Not great because it ends in vote buying for pet projects occurs to keep the government running.
But a system that always selects the middle person, or least offensive person is a terrible way to select a leader.