How Canada's 選挙（人）の system 作品
Oct 15 (Reuters) - Canadians 長，率いる to the 投票s on Oct. 19 after a 連邦の 選挙 race that has been 異常に long and closely fought.
With three main parties 争う to run the country, Canada's first-past-the-地位，任命する system means that a party does not have to 勝利，勝つ a 大多数 of 投票（する）s or seats in 議会 to take 力／強力にする. The に引き続いて are some facts about how the system 作品.
- As in most 議会の 僕主主義s, Canadians 投票（する） to elect only a member of 議会 to one of 338 選挙（人）の 地区s, and do not cast a 投票（する） for 首相. The 候補者 who 勝利，勝つs the most 投票（する）s in their riding becomes the 地元の 代表者／国会議員 in the 連邦の 立法機関.
- The party with the most elected 代表者／国会議員s, or MPs, will usually form a 政府, with the party's leader as 首相. The second-place party forms the 公式の／役人 対立. If the party with the largest number of seats does not have a simple 大多数, it may 支配する with support from one or more of the other parties in 議会, typically on an 問題／発行する-to-問題／発行する basis. With 多重の parties, it is possible to 勝利，勝つ a 大多数 in 議会 with いっそう少なく than 40 パーセント of the 投票（する）s from the 26.4 million 適格の 投票者s.
- A big question in this 選挙 is what happens if the 現職の, 権利-leaning 保守的なs 勝利，勝つ the most seats but do not take a 大多数. One シナリオ is that the left-leaning New Democratic Party and the 中道派（の） 自由主義の Party would 倒れる the 保守的なs すぐに and the one with more seats would 捜し出す to form a 政府 with at least the tacit support of the other.
- While there are only three parties that are considered major cont enders on a 連邦の level, there are a number of other 登録（する）d parties that also run 候補者s. There are 23 登録（する）d 政党s, によれば 選挙s Canada, while each 選挙（人）の 地区 had an 普通の／平均（する） of five 候補者s in the last 選挙 in 2011.
- The 枠組み was 相続するd from Britain, which also uses first-past-the-地位，任命する 投票（する）ing. The system earlier this year 手渡すd British 総理大臣 David Cameron a surprise 大多数 of seats in 議会 even though his 保守党 獲得するd just 37 パーセント of the 投票（する）. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Leah Schnurr and Randall Palmer; Editing by Alan Crosby)
