FPP unfair
• If ever there was a clear example of the inherent unfairness of the FPP system surely the recent Canadian election results will have demonstrated it. The Canadian Liberal Party swept in with an overwhelming 177 seats in a 295-seat Parliament and yet got only 41% of the total votes cast under the FPP system. The remaining parties: Bloc Quebecois (54); Reform Party (52); New Democratic (9); Conservatives (2) and Independent (1) got a total of only 116 seats and yet, with other minor parties, obtained 59% of the total number of votes cast. Let's hope that this Saturday's general election does not produce a similarly distorted result and that the referendum
on electoral reform does not support a system that is so patently unfair and undemocratic. If it does, the advocates of FPP will have a lot to answer for in terms of democracy and the political process in New Zealand. As a voter in the King
Country electorate 1 know that my vote will be wasted this Saturday but under MMP it would have made some contribution towards a truly democratic process of representation.
Dennis
Beytagh
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 510, 2 November 1993, Page 3
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189FPP unfair Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 510, 2 November 1993, Page 3
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