Re:Beirut Port Explosion
by philwelch on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:10PM
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NDP won fewer seats than Bloc Québécois in the last election. And it’s worth pointing out, I think, that the most prominent US politician who would be aligned with the NDP ideologically, Bernie Sanders, is actually an independent rather than a Democrat.
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> NDP won fewer seats than Bloc Québécois
That's mostly because Bloc Québécois is concentrated in a specific province, and often specific parts of that province, while the NDP's support is spread across all the provinces.
It's the same in the UK, where the Lib Dems got triple the vote of the SNP, but less than a quarter of the seats.
Yes, as I pointed out, this is an artifact of how Duverger’s Law guarantees that first-past-the-post voting systems lead to two-party systems. BQ is one of the two parties in Quebec just as SNP is one of the two parties in Scotland.