jhymesba,

An interesting thought exercise. What if Ontario used Proportional Representation. Ford would have gotten 76 seats, but he’d have seen an Ontario Parliament that was 187 or 188 seats. Of these:

  • The NDP would have gotten another 22 seats, in addition to their 40 won seats, for 62 total seats.
  • The Liberals would have gotten another 29 seats, in addition to their 7 won seats, for 36 total seats.
  • The Greens would have gotten 7 additional seats, plus their 1 won seat, for a total of 8 seats.
  • 5 seats would have to be allocated between the NDP, Liberals, and Greens since the Progressive Conservatives shouldn’t be entitled to more than 40.5% of the seats as they got 40.5% of the vote.

We’d have to amend the US constitution to make this happen here, but I think you guys could just do it with a law there. But this is what ifs and coulda-bens. The as-is shows clearly why we don’t want to import your political system here. Democrats would never win an election again if we split our votes like Ontarians split theirs…

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