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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Minority government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | A minority government, or a minority cabinet, is a cabinet of a parliamentary system which does not represent a majority in the parliament — or in bicameral parliaments, in that chamber whose confidence is considered most crucial. |
 | | Minority governments ruled Canada from 1921 to 1930, 1957 to 1958, 1962 to 1968, 1972 to 1974, 1979 to 1980 and currently in 2004, the Liberals have been elected into a minority government. |
 | | Minority governments are more common in countries using proportional representation systems, where it seldom occurs that one single party wins a majority of their own. |
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