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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This makes a ton of sense. It might wind up with a bunch of people running as the leader of niche parties just to get enough vote (i.e. 1/338th of the vote or whatever is the proportion at the time) to get their "party" a PR seat, but that's probably not a big problem and you could also create a minimum - e.g. the PR seats are distributed amongst parties with more than 5% of the popular vote.
I like it.
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I think other examples of MMPR would have a 5% minimum to be granted one of the PR seats. Having a 5% limit means:
- NDP would have gotten PR seat(s) as they made it to 6.3%
- Bloc would have gotten PR seat(s) as they made it to 6.3%
- Green party would not have gotten a PR seat as they were only at 1.2%
- PPC only got 0.7%
- Other fringe parties were at a fraction of a percentage
But this election was weird and very much a head to head between the Libs and Cons.
Going back to 2019:
- the Libs and Cons each had just over 6M votes
- the NDP had 2.9M votes
- the Green Party had 1.189M votes
- the Bloc only had 1.397M votes
This would have given much more of the PR seats to the NDP (half as many as the Libs and Cons) and the Greens would have had a pretty decent representation as they nearly matched the Bloc on the popular vote. In fact, the Greens would probably win more seats through PR than through ridings just because they collect so many votes throughout the country without winning very many ridings. (It seems broken that the Greens can get over a million votes and only have 3 seats in 2019)
For fringe parties, the PPC collected 294K votes, which is about 1.6% and still nowhere near the 5% threshold. With 18M voters, a party would need 900,000 votes to get to that threshold.