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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Unless you want a two party system like the States, I'd much rather have the ruling party with ~30% to rule. At least with Canada, viable parties can come into existence. With true majority rules, it's always going to be one or the other.
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I think Canada's system would work better with some kind of run offs/ranked choice, or primary type system to ensure majority support at the seat level. It seems the winner is often the party that can avoid the most vote splitting. If 60% want a right leaning party and 40% want a left party, but there are 2 major right parties, and one major left party, then the left will usually win the majority of the seats. The most representative government would look like something more like 30/30/40 split of seats.