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Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

First Past The post voting artificially limits the number of political parties to two. > Kiiiind of, Canada has fptp as well and we have about 4.5ish competitive parties, Liberal Party, Conservative Party, NDP (“socialist” party), Bloc Quebecois (Quebec focussed party [used to be a sepratist party, but has evolved to just focus on getting more favourable policies for Quebec since separating has fallen out of favour in Quebec), and the .5 would be the Green Party. So we can vote against the main 2 without wasting our votes/effectively voting for the party we hate more. BUT the reason I said kinda is notice I said Main 2. NDP has won opposition a few times (2nd most voted for party nationally), but Only 2 parties have ever been the most voted for in an election, the Liberals and the Conservatives. (Bloc Quebecois has won the provincial government multiple times in Quebec, but obviously has never been a contender for national government)

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Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

two-party system, political system in which the electorate gives its votes largely to only two major parties and in which one or the other party can win a majority in the legislature.

Canada is a two party system, because they fit this definition, the majority of the legislature is controlled by the main two parties:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada

Of the 338 seats, 81% of them are held by either the conservative or liberal party. The other parties have no shot of winning a majority.

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- Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Once again, NDP has won Opposition before. It is a viable 3rd option and likely would have won the national election roughly a decade ago if Jack Layton hadnt died of cancer during his run.
  
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  - Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Once again, NDP has won Opposition before
    
    And the U.S. had the federalist party which once held power. An extra party being previously viable in the past has little to do with whether or not a legislature is controlled by 1 of 2 parties.
    
    And because of how our legislature works, if the winning party wins by a minority (Less than 50% of legislative seats), the NDP can team up with the opposition to outpower the party that won and use that to attempt to get legislation that it wants pushed through as a compromise.
    
    “X party can team up with y” also doesn’t negate the definition of a two party system. Cooperation or not, the conservatives and liberals control the overwhelming majority of the seats.
    
    your last paragraph is false and only serves to entrench the 2 most powerful parties.
    
    I’ll be honest, I’m not Canadian and rarely speak about Canadian politics. So in no way am I entrenching the two most powerful parties.
    
    And my last paragraph isn’t false. There are 338 seats in your house of Commons, and 81% of them are held by the two dominant parties. That is objectively true. The final sentence is a subjective one.
    
    Sure, 3rd parties in Canada fair considerably better than they do in the U.S., but it seems pretty clear that they have no shot of getting a majority.
    
    So with all of these things together, Canada is a two party system as well, largely due to the use of FPTP voting. We need more representative systems like approval and star voting.
    
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    Kedly@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah ok, you have zero idea what you are talking about and are projecting American politics onto Canada. Canada has FPTP and Canada is not in anyway a 2 party country. The NDP and Bloc Quebecois have both had a very strong influence on our political landscape and just because our CURRENT government gives souch power to our two most powerful parties doesnt in anyway mean that the NDP gaining significant amount of power is an anomaly, as it has done so many times in the past
    
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