From: nicholasiii@gmail.com
On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 2:00:01 PM UTC-4, Alan Smaill wrote:
> Nicholas Benjamin writes:
>
> > On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 4:43:38 AM UTC-4, soupdragon wrote:
> >> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote
> ...
> >> > SNP sweeps Sctoland with the others getting 1 seat each.
> >>
> >> And, just to clarify. The Scottish parliament has 5 parties, not 3. It
> >> did have 6 until Sheriden's SSP went into melt down. UKIP have made no
> >> headway in Scotland and have no representatives, so they don't count
> >
> > So we're talking about an election to the UK Parliament, which is
> > first-past-the-post; and you're using numbers from the elections to
> > the MMP Scots Parliament?
> >
> > My friend, you have truly mastered the art
> > of fuzzy logic.
> >
> > In the UK Parliamentary election, which is the one we are actually
> > talking about, there are three parties and a guy from Dumfries. The
> > three parties are Labour,. the LibDems, and the SNP. Thaty is a
> > three-party system.
>
> Let's see Conservatives, LibDems, Labour, SNP --
> that makes 4. (the Conservatives got more votes in Scotland
> than the LibDems; Con, LibDem and Labour have 1 seat each.)
> Not to mention that the UK parliament has Green and UKIP MPs (and NI
> parties).
>
>
> >
> > Nick
>
> --
> Alan Smaill
Question:
Why do you think of of that affects the number of parties in the party system?
The US has many many more then two parties. Most of them are elected at one
level or another. It gets even more complicated when you get deep into the
details (New York State pols, for example, are generally nominated by at least
two separate parties;
the Dem side alone has technically elected Senators under at least four
different party labels in the past decade, etc.). It's still a two-party
system because the WFP is not gonna get an official job anytime soon.
Nick
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