Juho> Sent: 22 February 2007 06:29 > On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:50 , Dave Ketchum wrote: > > STAY AWAY from US Presidential elections. The Electoral College > > offers too many complications to live with for this effort. > > Ok, let it be UK then, electing a MP (excluding at least the > Scottish Parliament to stay in the two-party domain). :-)
Someone's a little out of date with the state of UK politics! At the 2005 UK general election (Westminster, House of Commons), Labour got 35% of the votes, Conservatives 32% and Liberal Democrats 22%, with 11% spread across a wide range of other parties. MPs from 12 different parties were elected. Changed days from 1951 and 1955 when the two largest parties together took 97% and 96% of all the votes!! The UK is the exception that proves Duverger's "law". James Gilmour ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
