POSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plurality Voting System, Proportional Representation
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Canada is a democracy, meaning that the government is elected by the people. Electoral systems are the rules by which votes are translated into seats in. There are different types of electoral systems, but each system produces a different result and changes the game of politics. Some political parties want canada to adopt a different electoral system, but. Canada still uses the electoral system it inherited from great britain in 1867. The debate over canada"s electoral system thus continues. If the rules of the game are changed, if canada adopts a different electoral system, the game of politics in canada will be changes as well. The single member plurality system (smp) also known as. The single member plurality (smp) electoral system (first-past-the-post): Strengths: easy to use, generally very stable, provides majority rule in two party systems, and close to majority rule in 3-
