The MMP guide

Undecided about the electoral system vote? Listener political columnist Jane Clifton steps through the MMP minefield.

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29th October, 2011

There could hardly be a worse time for a debate on whether to upheave the nation by ditching MMP. Beside the rather more pressing global and local concerns voters face, there’s the ironic possibility that this election the MMP system could yield an old-fashioned first-past-the-post result. Opinion polls have frequently portended that National has enough support to govern alone. History is against this, as the major parties’ polling traditionally closes up as polling day approaches. Lately, the Government has faced, and at times bungled, extra challenges that seem set to reduce its poll ...

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