PSCI 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Third Order, Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2003
• Professor: J Malloy

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Single member plurality (smp: also known as first past the post, whoever gets the most votes in a riding wins a seat in the house of common, other (cid:448)otes (cid:862)(cid:449)asted(cid:863) No correlations between percentage of national votes for a party and number of seats (because: cartier wins the seat with 33% of vote the votes are scattered) The liberals won 42% of the vote; the ndp got 39% but the ndp won more seats and formed a majority government: b. c, 2001. The liberal party won 97% of the seats with 58% of the vote: new brunswick, 1987. The liberal party won 100% of the seats with approximately 60% of the popular. Why keep smp and its distortions> vote: traditional; inherited from british, accountability of mps to local community, simple, distortio(cid:374)s (cid:373)ake (cid:862)sta(cid:271)le(cid:863) (cid:373)ajorities (cid:373)ore likel(cid:455, promotes two strong parties; keeps out smaller, potentially disruptive parties. Josiah wilson: born in haiti, adopted by first nations family.