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Premier Doug Ford is first Ontario party leader since 1959 to win 3 majorities

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If we'd had proportional representation this is what the numbers would be:

53 pc 37 lib 22 ndp 6 gr 2 new blue 1 ind

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

In the long run, the only viable solution is proportional representation: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But would they? I'd have voted differently if we had PR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, yeah, if the percentages were different there would be a different outcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As long as your vote wasn't going to the conservatives, it mostly doesn't matter what those numbers look like as long as OPC is less than 50%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

depending on the pr.... My thinking is I would have likely voted NDP with Liberal as second, rather than how i did vote: Liberal (party i thought had the greatest chance in my riding of causing us to not go conservative). I think this would likely have happened to a significant number of voters. Given all that I'm suspicious that any predictions that you could make given data under FPTP if there had been PR are valueless.