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by theteapot
359 days ago
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Current US house of reps (435 seats): Republicans: 220 seats.
Democrats: 215 seats.
Independents/Third Party: 0 seats.
Current AU house of reps (150 seats): Australian Labor Party (ALP): 94 seats
Coalition: 43 seats (combined Liberal/National parties)
Australian Greens: 1 seat
Centre Alliance: 1 seat
Katter's Australian Party: 1 seat
Independents: 10 seats
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E.g. Greens got about 12.2% of vote.
12.2% of 150 is 18, not 1.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/02/...
The system while better is biased towards parties who can get the majority of individual constituencies based on geographic location. It relies on localized monocultures to get democracy for smaller parties. But that doesn't happen.