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To: Joe NYC who wrote (129124)	11/27/2000 10:49:52 PM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1570814

Jozef said: to Steve's reply; Actually the primeminister comes from the party that takes the most seats.. let's say you have 3 parties split the vote 40/30/30.. the one with 40 gets to have the PM. Interesting. I have never heard of that kind of arrangement. What if the 2 parties with 30% each in the parliament form a coalition? This isnt quite accurate... % of the popular vote has nothing really to do with it.. its who wins the most seats.. first past the post wins in each riding so to speak. I believe Steve was talking about seats there in his split... what he also describes doesnt always happen.. but in that situation.. you have whats called a minority government.. where the governing party who has the most seats must depend on other parties to keep the "confidence" of the House Of Commons. THe coalition government you describe Josef is possible... but in federal politics.. has never happenned.. the support of other parties is usually informal or loose... usually if the government loses a "non-confidence" vote, new elections are called.. A coalition government has happenned once in Ontario in provincial politics 15 yrs ago when the governing party was defeated and a coalition was formed.. it was unprecedented at the time.