FPTP vs MMP

[Ivan Avery Frey]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | So in the 1995 election with the PCs at 44.8%, the Liberals at 39.9%, and the
> | NDP at 12.6%, we might have had a Liberal minority government with the NDP
> | holding the balance of power.
> 
> I don't understand how you (and several other people) talk as if
> changing the system would not change how people vote.  It surely
> would.  So you cannot take a past election's statistics and say what
> would have happened with MMP.  You don't even know what parties would
> have been available.

Absolutely correct. MMP gives every elector 2 votes. One for the local 
riding candidate and a party vote.

One could speculate that NDP might have received a greater share of the 
party vote, because a lot of liberal votes were probably strategic.

Ivan.
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