[EM] Juho reply, 21 Feb., 1053 GMT

[James Gilmour]

Juho> Sent: 22 February 2007 06:29
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:50 , Dave Ketchum wrote:
> > STAY AWAY from US Presidential elections.  The Electoral College  
> > offers too many complications to live with for this effort.
> 
> Ok, let it be UK then, electing a MP (excluding at least the 
> Scottish Parliament to stay in the two-party domain). :-)

Someone's a little out of date with the state of UK politics!  At the
2005 UK general election (Westminster, House of Commons), Labour got 35%
of the votes, Conservatives 32% and Liberal Democrats 22%, with 11%
spread across a wide range of other parties.  MPs from 12 different
parties were elected.  Changed days from 1951 and 1955 when the two
largest parties together took 97% and 96% of all the votes!!  The UK is
the exception that proves Duverger's "law".
James Gilmour