Canada went to the polls yesterday. As I noted in my posted yesterday, Canada uses an unfair electoral system, and the results were disproportionate. How disproportionate? Take a look at the table below:
| Party | %vote | Seats | % Seats |
| Conservative | 39.62 | 167 | 54.2 |
| New Democrat | 30.63 | 102 | 33.1 |
| Liberal | 18.91 | 34 | 11.04 |
| Bloc Québécois | 6.04 | 4 | 1.3 |
| Green | 3.91 | 1 | 0.32 |
(For the wonks, the result has a Gallagher Index of 12.58. New Zealand's last election, our worst under MMP, had a Gallagher Index of 3.84)
So the Conservatives get to govern, despite being rejected by a clear majority of the Canadian people, thanks to an electoral system which inflates a plurality into a majority, while under-representing everyone else. It is not acceptable for a supposedly democratic nation to be governed in this way; Canada desperately needs electoral reform.
Meanwhile, its a stark warning of the consequences of the electoral system the right want to foist upon us here. Don't let them do it.
