POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plurality Voting System, Elections Canada, Majority Government
4 Oct 2016
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Canada"s electoral system: single member plurality smp, first past the. Smp is good: bloc quebecois; only has representatives from their concentrated ridings, having support there 10% in one concentrated area, rather if you have support all over, geographically dispersed. Decline of deference"- citizens want to be involved themselves and be a part of the decision making themselves, Smp is designed to vote once every 4 years. Systems that turns votes into seats: list proportional representation (list pr) italy. 18. treat the country as one large constituency- vote once for the party they want to see in government- proportional = the amount of seats you get are equivalent to the amount of votes you get. Parties have a large role in this list making- Impossible to win a majority government: coalition governments, a lot of elections since there are minority governments fall, mixed member pr (mmpr) 21. hybrid of the list system and the current system we have,
