Timeline for Why doesn't the UK Labour Party push for proportional representation?
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| Jan 28, 2021 at 6:29 | comment | added | Jordan Barrett | "guarantees" is the wrong word here, as human voters are not rational actors with perfect information. But FPP does tend towards dominance of two parties over time. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | Adam Barnes | That's just a symptom of the regression to a two party eventuality still happening. While the eponymous two parties aren't a guaranteed in, there will be some jostling until they are. At that point, the voting public rightly sees their votes as wasted when voting third party, and the majority will spite vote against the one of the two they like the least, if they vote at all. Note I'm not suggesting the eventuality is a coalition. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 0:35 | comment | added | Flydog57 | I'm not sure if I agree with your premise. Look at Canada. Only 2 parties have ever formed a government, and no stable coalition government has ever happened at the national level. But... Both of those parties have been blown out of the water in elections, and as a result several of the second tier parties have been the "official opposition" at times. At least once, the traditional 3rd party looked like it might win (only to mess up at end of the campaign). Those second tier parties, though, remained mostly intact: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 18:30 | history | answered | Adam Barnes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |