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Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo
I agree - this is a fundamental promise he's made, to try and inject some sort of electoral balance between seats and vote percentage.
Also interesting, during the last election the PCs won 54% of the seats on 39.6% of the popular vote.
It's interesting that the numbers are (essentially) identical. I don't know that it really say anything specific, just an interesting quirk in the numbers.
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It's hard to imagine a system that gave seats based on popular vote percentage without completely changing the whole underlying concept of the House.
It seems the most legitimate thing that could be done is to allow voters second and third choices and pick the seats by run off. The most non-equitable times of Canadian government were when you'd have Liberal majorities while the majority wanted right of center parties (but split their votes in all the ridings between Reform and PCs), or conservatives would have majority governments while the majority would split their votes on the left leaning parties.