the conservative party has the most seats in the house of commons.
which party has the most seats in the house of commons?
conservative
in the 2003 election, the pq lost power to the liberal party. however, in early 2004, the liberal government of paul martin had proved to be unpopular, and that, combined with the federal liberal party sponsorship scandal, contributed to a resurgence of the bq. in the 2004 federal elections, the bloc québécois won 54 of quebec's 75 seats in the house of commons, compared to 33 previously. however, in the 2006 federal elections the bq lost three seats and in the 2008 federal elections lost two additional seats, bringing their total down to 49, but was still the most popular federal party in quebec up until the 2011 canadian federal election, when the bq was devastated by the federalist ndp, with the bloc at a total of four seats and the loss of official party status in the commons (compared to the ndp's 59 seats, conservatives' five seats, and the liberals' seven seats in quebec).
quebec sovereignty movement
a so-called "third party" in the united kingdom are the liberal democrats. in the 2010 election, the liberal democrats received 23% of the votes but only 9% of the seats in the house of commons. while electoral results do not necessarily translate into legislative seats, the liberal democrats can exert influence if there is a situation such as a hung parliament. in this instance, neither of the two main parties (at present, the conservative party and the labour party) have sufficient authority to run the government. accordingly, the liberal democrats can in theory exert tremendous influence in such a situation since they can ally with one of the two main parties to form a coalition. this happened in the coalition government of 2010. yet in that more than 13% of the seats in the british house of commons are held in 2011 by representatives of political parties other than the two leading political parties of that nation, contemporary britain is considered by some to be a multi-party system, and not a two-party system. the two party system in the united kingdom allows for other parties to exist, although the main two parties tend to dominate politics; in this arrangement, other parties are not excluded and can win seats in parliament. in contrast, the two party system in the united states has been described as a duopoly or an enforced two-party system, such that politics is almost entirely dominated by either the republicans or democrats, and third parties rarely win seats in congress.
two-party system