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pseudohistorian

Tell Me Why I Love You Like I Do

Oct 07, 2011 12:39

This has been an election-rich year in Canada.

Besides the federal election, whose results were exactly the opposite of what I'd hoped, there were also provincial elections here in Manitoba as well as in neighbouring Ontario this week, with more provincial elections in most of Canada throughout the year ( Read more... )

classic 'peg, canadian politics

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jakie_em October 9 2011, 05:29:20 UTC

the 1998 (GST) election in Australia saw the Liberal Party (our right wing party) win 8 seats more than Labor despite labor getting more votes. in two party preferred labor got almost 51%. they got more of the primary vote too.

pseudohistorian October 14 2011, 17:23:30 UTC

I'm not referring here to the difference between the popular vote and election results in a first-past-the-post system, but rather the strangeness of the same subset of the public voting to support opposite ideologies. I used my own riding as an example because it shows how the same few thousand people would solidly support conflicting parties within months of each other.

To use your example, it would be like your own neighbourhood voting strongly in favour of the Liberal Party in a federal election, then turning around and voting strongly for Labor in a state election that same year.

jakie_em October 16 2011, 13:32:47 UTC

Funny you should say that.

in the 2010 Federal election in August, Victoria had the largest 2 party preferred to Labor. in their state election just 3 months later, the Liberal party won.

labor had been in power since 1999 and many said this was part of what was against them. also I think a number of the minor parties in the election, their preferences weren't set to a party throughout the state, but more seat by seat. the ASP (Australian Sex Party), put labor over liberal in some seats, some it was the other way around. some seats, their dispersion fell to a minor party or independent who were so against the fundamental beliefs of the ASP.

possibly the best thing about the victorian election (and I am from Western Australia, but I still loved this) was the ad for the ASP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyS6MBeNLE