Editor:
Voting statistics for the 2019 federal election vividly illustrate failures of the first-past-the-post system.
• Green Party received 6.5 per cent of the popular vote, and won three seats.
• Bloc Quebecois received 7.7 per cent of the popular vote (1.2 per cent more than the Greens) and won 32 seats, almost 10 times more seats than the Greens.
• NDP won 15.92 per cent of the votes (more than twice as much as the Bloc) and won 24 seats compared to the Bloc’s 32 seats.
• Liberals received one-third of the votes, and won 157 seats (46 per cent).
• Conservatives received 34.4 per cent of the vote (one per cent more than the Liberals) and won 121 seats (35.8 per cent), and 36 less than the Liberals.
A country does not have a truly democratic government when its electoral system is so badly flawed.
George and Terry Goulet, Sechelt
