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Conservatives Win In Canada

October 13, 2008 - 12:10 am - by Lorne D. Thomson
Sam Duncan
2008-10-13 15:12:55

“My favorite joke party was the 1992 election’s Nation Law Party”

Sure it wasn’t the Natural Law Party? We had them in the UK that year too; astonishingly, contesting the fourth largest number of seats after the “big three”. Which must have cost them a fortune, incidentally: each candidate has to stump up a deposit of £500 which gets refunded if you pull in more than 5% of the vote. None of theirs did, needless to say.

Unbelievably though, they came back for more in 1997, actually managing to halve their 0.2% share of the vote to 0.1%