On April 23, Prince Edward Island held a provincial election. The legislature has 27 seats, but no election was held in one district because the Green Party nominee died just before the vote. That district will be filled later.
Among the 26 seats that were decided, the Progressive Conservative Party won 12 seats, the Green Party won eight, and the Liberal Party won six. Because the Green Party placed second, it becomes the official opposition party.
Before the election, there were 16 Liberals, eight Progressive Conservatives, two Greens, and one independent. See the wikipedia article about the election.
Does anyone know of a prior instance of the Greens getting the first or second largest number of seats anywhere above the local level — state, provincial or national?
There’s at least one prior instance: Baden-Wurttenburg in Germany, in 2011 and 2016. Thanks to Dave Hutcheon, a participant in the thread at Fruits and Votes, for this answer.
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/pei-2019-provincial-assembly-election-and-mmp-referendum
One more EVIL/VICIOUS minority rule gerrymander election
— happens to be in a SMALL island regime.
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@Bob Richard Well, if you look outside of North American politics, then yes for almost all the countries around the world… but inside the North American politics (especially both the United States and Mexico) which both yes for Mexico, but not that high of seat numbers and no for the United States especially since spoiler effect makes it impossible to vote for them by the major of the American conscious and even few politicians joined their party, was more symbolic for their retirement from politics unfortunately. For Canada case due to the unintentionally designed flaw as a Parliament representative democracy and some are too cynical (or semi-realistically cynical) to take the spoiler effect that seriously as to make them almost accidentally possible to make them winnable and electable.
The United Coalition is bringing collaboration with the 100%.
That’s a new political unity psychology not used in traditional politics, not reported in the BAN rag, so Canadian government politics do not bring unity, just division that is regular news for BAN.