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submitted 2 months ago by Beaver@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24368090

The seat make up would look more like the left if we had a more fair and accountable proportional representation over the obsolete first past the post.

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[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

FPTP was fine when elections were held within a riding, and results were delivered by horseback. You were voting based on a local candidate, not the national party.

Then the railroad, telegraph, telephone, and internet were invented, politics became national, and we're still using FPTP.

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks, that does actually help out of into context and explains how we got here. I think the better question (and the one I should've asked) is why are we still using a system that predates the railroad?

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