POLI 101 Lecture 14: Poli 101 Chapter 13
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King to form government with the progressives, even though they finished 2nd and 3rd respectively: the leader of the political party with the most mps usually becomes the prime minister. Ridings: ridings / constituencies: territorial or geographical localities represented by a politician chosen through an electoral process, characteristics in determining ridings, population size, calculated through enumeration . In the parliamentary system parties are either in government or they are in opposition. The origins and evolution of canada"s party system. In the pre-confederation province of canada, the more successful party was the. Conservatives: the conservatives and liberals dominated politics during the formative years of, the nineteenth-century political system facilitated patronage politics. Canada"s party system, up to the 1920s: open ballets, staggered election, but: the twentieth century saw dominance of the liberals, 70 years of liberal governance, emergence of brokerage parties, new voters.