With the election today and conservatives ahead in the polls I want to remind everyone that our voting system is terrible and needs to be reformed. In the mean time, dont vote with your heart. Vote for who you think will beat the conservatives. Heres an example from the article. French presidential election, 2002 Main article: French presidential election, 2002 Unlike the two examples above, this is from real life. In the 2002 French presidential election, the two contenders described by the media as having the possibility to win were Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin, who represented the largest two political parties in France at the time. However, a third contender, Jean-Marie Le Pen, unexpectedly obtained slightly more than Jospin in the first round of elections: Jacques Chirac 19.88% Jean-Marie Le Pen 16.86% Lionel Jospin 16.18% Several other candidates received smaller percentages of the first round vote. Since no candidate obtained an absolute majority, a second round is organized with only the first two candidates from the first. Jean-Marie Le Pen, however, was widely recognized as a controversial nationalist candidate, and in the second round a vast majority of the votes went to Chirac: Jacques Chirac 82.21% Jean-Marie Le Pen 17.79% ---- For the Lazy who got this far here are a list of elections decided by a run off vote. French presidential, legislative, and cantonal elections, and also to elect the presidents of Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Uruguay, Zimbabwe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:46:45 +0000
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