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Originally Posted by nfotiu
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.
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This is also terrible as it leads to Redford and Stelmech being Premiers.
It leads to people campaigning to be the least offensive rather than trying to lead. The goal becomes being the second choice of everyone rather than the first choice of the most.
It would lead to endless liberal dominance as every Conservative 2nd choice would be liberal before NDP and every NDP would be liberal before conservative.