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   > 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.   
      
      
      
   On 28/04/2015 5:52 PM, Sharx35 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   There are two parties in favour of that kind of voting system:  the Greens and   
   the NDP.   
   Failing a proportional-representation system, we need the coaltion government   
   system.   
      
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