[EM] List PR (fwd)

[Forest Simmons]

Some interesting information about PR usage from Olli Salmi.

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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:00:14 +0200
From: Olli Salmi <olli.salmi at uusikaupunki.fi>
To: Forest Simmons <fsimmons at pcc.edu>
Cc: Craig.LAYTON at add.nsw.gov.au
Subject: RE: [EM] List PR

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You may have noticed that Tom Round
proposes a kind of highest average STV in his thesis:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lee/prsa/tround/thesis.html

Many of the Students' Unions in Finland have just been having elections. If
you are interested in exotic elections and not just the fascinating
mathematical properties of voting systems, the Student Union of the
University of Helsinki has a site about the elections in English, with a
link to the Candidate Test Engine, which has become fashionable in
Parliamentary and municipal elections as well, because it is supposed to
help you choose between the candidates. They have politely translated the
questions into English.
http://www.helsinki.fi/hyy/en/elections.html
The elections follow the normal Finnish procedure, but apparentements
a.k.a. connected lists are allowed.

Here are the results tabulated with the votes and seats of apparentements
(renkaat), lists (liitot), and the candidates with their numbers, votes,
and the quotients within the lists and apparentements.
http://www.helsinki.fi/hyy/Tulokset.txt

The Greens seem to show the pictures of their candidates, each with a
stupid motto.
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/hyvi/

I stood for such an election in the late 60s. I think I got 6 votes, none
of which was mine. It wasn't enough.

Finnish, Swedish and German Students' Unions use a nice Westminter model.
In English speaking countries the officers or directly elected and the
councils consist of lots of ex officio members.

Best regards,
Olli