Mauritius: Small parties played against big parties?

The public is raging about the 7000 or 11000 who did not get to vote because the Electoral Commission deleted their names from the voting list.

There is a petition that garnered 55,500 signatures and rising and it is calling for the annulment of the Nov 7 polls.

It is clear the people who did not get to vote might have changed some results in a certain number of constituencies.

This would be possible in the seats won by a slim margin by the MSM-ML-Allies and would have made it tougher for winners.

Because it would result in a hung parliament, with the PTR or MMM winning more seats, reducing the MSM-ML catch.

POWER OF SMALL PARTIES!

But what about the votes garnered by the smaller parties, including the Reform Party, Lalit, PKM, FSM, Party Malin and so on.

They are 14 such parties that got more than 1000 votes, with Reform Party leading the group with 29,994 votes in total.

They are followed by 100% Citoyens with 18,842 votes, Parti Kreol Morisien 18,841, Front Solidarite Mauricien 12,656, Lalians Lespoir 7104 and Party Malin 5179 (a disappointing figure).

These are the parties that won more than 5000 votes.

The list is longer for those winning more than 4000 votes, like Les Verts and Lalit.

Below these two parties are those that won 3000 above and 1000 above. It ends with parties that garnered less than 100 votes.

The total is a whopping 151,204 votes that went to the smaller parties. The top 10 among the smaller parties won 106,300 votes.

Considering the total number of voters in the country, this is a huge figure.

This shows the power of the smaller parties in the country, but the difference is the voting system does not grant them a chance to make it to the Parliament.

It is clear that a percentage of the voters are not equally represented in Parliament and the big parties are also victims of the system.

Perhaps an alliance with some of the smaller parties could have gotten the bigger parties are a bigger share of votes?