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   From: sharx35@hotmail.com   
      
   wrote in message news:qqU%w.33268$pO4.498@fx17.iad...   
      
   On 28/04/2015 2:00 PM, M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   > Now imagine how the people of Ontario felt on September 7th, 1990, when   
   > they   
   > awoke to an NDP majority that received 37.6% of the vote.   
      
   Probably about the same as they felt when they found out Harper had won a   
   majority   
   with only 39.6% of the votes.   
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   We do need to ditch the first-past=the-post balloting system, replacing   
   it with some kind of proportional rep. based system, i.e. proportion   
   of popular vote that a party gets translates directly into proportionate   
   number of seats.   
   No one could say that their vote was wasted.   
      
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