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That 'undemocratic' New Zealand election result : Comments

By Philip Lillingston, published 26/10/2017

Apparently, what defines a good electoral system is to, as quickly as possible, have someone form a new government, whether that someone actually has majority support.

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It’s unbelievable that major democracies like the US and the UK still solely use the FPTP system to elect their parliamentarians. In the British 2010 general election the Liberal Democrats candidate won the seat of Norwich South with 29.4% of the vote.
Not to be outdone, in the following election the Social Democratic and Labour Party candidate, an Alistair McDonnell, contesting the seat of Belfast South, won with a grand total of 24.5% of the vote. One wonders what the other 75.5% of the constituents thought of that?
Posted by Edward Carson, Friday, 27 October 2017 7:41:15 AM
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