• OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    You’ve got it backwards.

    This kind of voting forces the existence of two party systems.

    Suppose you have two parties one left wing that gets 60% of the vote and one right wing that gets 40% in every district. Right now the left wing always wins.

    If the left wing party splits into two blocks of 30% each, the right wing always wins.

    So if you want to win, you can never split from the large parties, even if you feel unrepresented.