Letters to the Editor:   
      
   We have watched the Ontario election with dismay for some, jubilation for   
   others.  The striking thing is how unfair the first-past-the-post voting   
   method is.   
      
   The Progressive Conservatives got more than 40 per cent of the vote, the NDP   
   got 34 per cent, the Liberals 19 per cent, and the Greens 5 per cent.  The   
   seat count on Friday was:  PC 76, NDP 40, Liberals 7, and Greens 1.     
      
   If they had voted under proportional representation, applying those   
   percentages to the 124 eats in the Ontario legislature their numbers would   
   have been:  PC 50, NDP 42, Liberals 23, and Greens 6.   
      
   With such numbers, the PC would have had a minority that would have fallen at   
   the first vote, and the NDP and Greens could have formed a coalition and given   
   the 59% of Ontarians who voted for something other than the Conservatives, a   
   government much    
   closer to what they really wanted.   
      
   Now Ontario has a Doug Ford government that has a strong majority and can do   
   pretty much just as it pleases.  Does anyone still believe first-past-the-post   
   is preferable?   
      
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