| Posted: 10 November 2026 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | 1
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John Byrne wrote: Under a parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is the head of the party that gets the most votes. There is no absurdity by which the candidate who got LESS votes becomes leader because of an antiquated system intended to “equalize” votes.
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That can certainly happen under a first-past-the-post parliamentary system. In New Zealand's 1978 and 1981 general elections, the National party won despite getting fewer votes than the Labour party. It set New Zealand on a course to replace FPTP with a Proportional Representation system.
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