Majority Government, Minority Support
(Note: You may also be interested in this post comparing various types of government.) A reader contacted me asking how a party can win a majority of seats, and thus form the government, but not have a majority of the popular vote. This is due to the voting system used in Canada and a few [...]
Understanding government formation
There is some confusion in Canada (and elsewhere) as to how government formation occurs following a general election, particularly when an election results in a hung parliament. This post will attempt to provide a basic overview of the process. First, there are a couple of key concepts to understand and keep in mind. 1. In [...]
On responsible media
In the lead-up to the May 2010 United Kingdom general election, opinion polls showed that in all likelihood, the election would result in a hung, or minority parliament, that is, a parliament in which no single party would have a majority of the seats in the House of Commons. The last hung parliament in the [...]
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