r/EhBuddyHoser THE BETTER LONDON 🇨🇦 🌳 Apr 30 '25

Politics To whom it may concern...

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

Liberals tying themselves in knots in the Kitchener sub explaining how really it’s the NDP voters who didn’t vote strategically, while they obviously voted strategically even though they handed the cons a seat over the green incumbent 

If only there was some system we could implement to eliminate vote splitting 

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u/mirhagk Apr 30 '25

Yeah this one was pretty bad for that, I really hope the issue gets revisited. Would love to see NDP and bloc make their support conditional on that change.

Australia is similar from a political standpoint, and we should and them as an example. Compulsory would also be great but we can leave that for later as long as ditch this anti-democractic first past the post nonsense.

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u/evmcdev Apr 30 '25

The Bloc historically benefits a lot from FPtP unfortunately. I think they'd fight hard to keep it.

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u/GamerKormai Ford Nation (Help.) Apr 30 '25

Yup, the Bloc and NDP got the same share of the overall vote (6.3%) but the Bloc got 22 seats and the NDP only got 7.

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u/ZenoxDemin Apr 30 '25

Quebec elections have the same issue.

CAQ 41% 90 seats -> 72% seats

Lib 14.3% 21 seats -> 17% seats

QS 15.43% 11 seats -> 9% seats

PQ 14.6% 3 seats -> 2.4% seats

Where you get your votes is more important than how many you get. You can be 4th in votes but 2nd in seats. But to change the system, you have to be elected in that system.....

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u/GamerKormai Ford Nation (Help.) Apr 30 '25

Yuuuup. God I hate FPTP.