Nice to see the NDP gradually picking up seats, although as in the UK there's the "Vote Liberal (or Labour as it is in the UK) to stop a Tory" ethos preventing them and other parties from picking up seats.
In the UK getting rid of First-Past-The-Post would make a massive difference to the Liberal Democrats. With 600-odd seats smaller parties face an uphill struggle to get anywhere. The last Conservative government was a minority by the end as a result of defections, etc, (and relied on the Irish Unionist parties to pass bills) but an election hasn't returned a hung parliament since 1974, and there was another election that year to resolve the issue.
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In the UK getting rid of First-Past-The-Post would make a massive difference to the Liberal Democrats. With 600-odd seats smaller parties face an uphill struggle to get anywhere. The last Conservative government was a minority by the end as a result of defections, etc, (and relied on the Irish Unionist parties to pass bills) but an election hasn't returned a hung parliament since 1974, and there was another election that year to resolve the issue.