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An election might be judged to have a lopsided or wipeout result if the winning party wins far more seats than its share of the votes would justify, winning most if not all of the seats.

Since a strong opposition capable of developing alterate policies and holding the government to account is generally regarded as a good thing, lopsided and wipeout results must be regarded as regretable.

This problem of lopsided and wipeout results is most noticable with the First Past The Post voting systems in single member constituencies, since FPTP is a winner-takes-all system, while single-member constituencies have no element of proportional representation.

Some examples of lopsided or wipeout results include:

1 Australia

Between 1901 and 1949, the upper house of the Federal parliament ( Senate) was elected by a system of majoritorian voting. Each state had 3 senators retiring at each half-senate election. Each voter had 3 First Past The Post votes ( FPTP). It was often the case that the 3 seats all went the same way, leading to lopsided results in the six states such as 36-0 or 3-33. These results brought the parliament into some disrepute. In 1948, a system of Single Transferable Vote PR was introduced.

Since the introduction of STV in the Senate, the parties have generally been evenly balanced, with minor parties and independents holding the balance of power. While frustrated, the government in the lower house has at least had a lot of different people to negotiate with.

In the 2004 election, the government did the near-impossible and gained the 57% of the vote in one state to obtain a majority in its own right in the Senate from July 2005, when the new Senators take up their seats. The quota winning a majority of seats at 54% is so high because there are an even number of seats; if there were an odd number of seats, the quota would be a more realistic 51%.

In the lower house, FPTP was changed to Preferential Voting in 1919. Preferential Voting allows the so-called Coalition to hold three-cornered contest without any risk of the result be spoiled by rogue candidates. At almost all elections, the government has had a clear majority - even a majority of 1 will do. It would be hard to show that only FPTP achieves strong government.

1.1 Queensland

In the 1974 election, using Single member electorates and Preferential Voting, the Labor opposition was reduced to a " cricket team" of eleven, against the coalition government at 72(?) seats.

2 Canada

Lists of general elections in Canada

2.1 Alberta

2.2 British Columbia

2.3 Manitoba

Manitoba elections


2.4 New Brunswick




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