I have been told that the winner of an election in Canada (for Prime Minister) is based on how many seats a party has in the House of Commons after the election. I always thought that the winner was determined by the popular vote for the individual person. Am I correct? Thanks ~
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they don't... if they did, no one would care... its canada
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We vote for who we want to represent our area, each representative is a part of a larger party. The leader of the party with the most seats becomes prime minister (as long as he gets elected in his/her riding). If the party leader does not get elected in his riding, the party elects a new leader based on who in the party was elected.
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No, Canada has a parliamentary system. Each of the parties in Canada, which are: Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat Party, and Green Party. They each have a chosen leader to be the head of the party. Then each party has representatives to run for election in their respective ridings. These are called MPP's and they are the one's trying to gain seats. There is over 300 seats I believe. Anyway, whatever party has control of the most seats becomes the leading party and the head of that party becomes Primie Minister. The party with the second most number of votes becomes the leading opposition party. Technically, then most Canadians don't actually get to vote for their Prime Minister. Only those whom are living in the riding that the Prime Minister is actually running in.
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There is no popular vote for an individual person. Harper was only on the ballot in one riding in Calgary. It's not like here. No, the leader of the party with the most seats is PM.
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Braden is very close to correct, though the elected officals are MPs (Members of Parliament), not MPPs, and he left out the Bloc Quebecois, the separatist party, which only runs candidates in Quebec, but takes most of the seats from that province. One major difference from the US is that all cabinet members must be elected MPs, not just pals of the leader
