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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson
That's right an hung parliament is when no one party has an overall majority.
If it's an hung parliament after the next election, this will mean that one of the main parties will have to rely on support from the Liberal Democrats to form a Government. The Lib Dems will almost certainly want a change in the voting system as the price for their support.
If you got some form of proportional representation voting system in this country it will almost certainly mean the end of one party domination.
The Tories don't want this. To balance the argument there's a few in the Labour Party dont want it either.
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We have had a minority government for a couple of years now; the Conservatives rely on support from the New Democrats (Labour) and/or the Bloc Quebecois (don't worry, you don't have anything like this) .... it's working well, and all the recent polls show that the last thing Canadians want is another General Election ... and, if we did go to the polls, we would probably end up with another minority govt. Proportional representation would seem to be the way to go for us ... but it's a hard sell. A minority tory govt. is, from what I read, Labour's best hope.