Australia has it. Greens as a third party get between 10-15% the vote, but little to no representation in the House of Commons.
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Doesn't Australia have instant-runoff?
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Duopoly in national races can't be overcome in US by, say, the Green Party strategy in Germany. Response to duopoly has to recognize this.
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one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how regional third parties have success in UK and Canada despite FPTP :3
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No, UK has a parliament. It can have three, four parties.
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Not quite. UK has single-seat districts which degenerate into local 2-party battles.
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each local constituency elects an MP by first past the post. Yes, in theory you can have local 3rd/4ths elected but it's still hard
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burns fails to recognize they do that here, too, but it's impossible for results to percolate up the stack. needs to get out of NYC.
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take UKIP; they had +12% of the vote but only had 1 MP among 650. Not that I would prefer more UKIP MPs but very undemocratic.
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resulting in parties abusing localities (class, religion, etc) be more represented than more geographically diverse (liberals?) ones
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