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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
While I don't necessarily disagree, I do find it amusing that if we look at Canada's last federal election we appointed a Prime minister whose party did not win the popular vote and gave the PQ 32 seats with only 1% more popular vote than the green party who got 2 seats.
I'm not sure which countries have it most right, but it's definitely not Canada or the US
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Or the UK, where Labour just won 63 per cent of the seats in parliament with only a third of the popular vote.
Of course, proportional representation has its own problems. It gives more power to fringe parties, makes coalition governments the norm, and those coalitions reliant on back-room wheeling and dealing that can drag on for months and months.