Our system is structured for two parties, though. (For example, a third-party that gets 10% of the congressional votes statewide will not have 10% of its congresspeople from that party; it will likely have none, unless most of those 10% are all in the same district.) There's no way to fix that systematically without blowing up much of the system. It's just different than in Canada/Israel.
Not so much different. A party that gets 10% of the votes in any one area in Canada won't win any seats either. Israel is proportional representation, Canada is "winner-take-all", except that instead of a state-by-state basis, it's a seat-by-seat basis.
So you need usually about 40% support in any one district to win a seat, and quite often parties like the Green Party will win 15% of the popular vote and no seats.
i have to agree with fweebles here. our system has historically only supported two parties at a time, but i think that has more to do with habit than with fundamental structures.
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So you need usually about 40% support in any one district to win a seat, and quite often parties like the Green Party will win 15% of the popular vote and no seats.
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our system has historically only supported two parties at a time, but i think that has more to do with habit than with fundamental structures.