[esarbe]

> Which is also true of Australia [...]

No, not really. If you look at Australia's parliament, you'll see that even though Labor and Liberal are the biggest party, they 'only' make up 60% of the seats. That's not really good, but it's a far cry from Canada's 82% (or the US's 99%)

> I would suggest you look at the actual examples in the wild

That's a very good suggestion. I actually already did that and I can assure you not using FPTP results in much more and smaller parties.

Examples:

- Ireland (STV)

- Northern Ireland Assembly (STV)

- Papua New Guinea (IRV)

> The recent push for FPTP

Do you mean 'against FPTP'? Because I can assure you that I'm not pushing for FPTP at all.

[monocasa]

> No, not really. If you look at Australia's parliament, you'll see that even though Labor and Liberal are the biggest party, they 'only' make up 60% of the seats. That's not really good, but it's a far cry from Canada's 82% (or the US's 99%)

I'm not sure how you came to that. Australia has 151 MPs, 68 in the liberal party, and 61 in labor, or 86% in the two major parties. Their senate has 76 members, 31 liberal, 26 labor, or exactly 75% in the two major parties.

> Do you mean 'against FPTP'? Because I can assure you that I'm not pushing for FPTP at all.

Yes, I misspoke there, as is clear from the rest of my argument.