Canadian Federal Election 2006
Here are 2 graphics that show the percentage of popular vote won compared to the percentage of seats won by the parties. In the Canadian graph, all of the parties get more seats (percentage) than the popular vote, exept for the New Democratic Party.
In the Quebec results, all the parties are at a disadvantage exept for the Bloc Quebecois. The Bloc gets 42 % of the popular vote but wins 68 % of the seats.
Had the same votes been cast under a proportional voting system, Fair Vote Canada projected that the seats allocation would have been approximately as follows:
Conservatives - 36.3% of the popular vote: 113 seats (not 124)
Liberals - 30.1% of the popular vote: 93 seats (not 103)
NDP - 17.5% of the popular vote: 59 seats (not 29)
Bloc - 10.5% of the popular vote: 31 seats (not 51)
Greens - 4.5% of the popular vote: 12 seats (not 0)
Posted by mark at 5:32 pm on January 24th, 2006.
Categories: General, ideas.
excellent résumé…donc ici, au canada, un parti peut obtenir 40% de vote, élire 60% des députés et avoir 100% du pouvoir!! Big deal.
Posted by éric on January 24th, 2006.
ca se passe ça, un peu partout hélas… la démocracie n’est pas encore à son apogée…
Posted by stephan on February 7th, 2006.