[EM] Best method in use?

[stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca]

I though in Finland, the proportional level of
each party was determined by the average of
supports received by each candidate from the same
party....
Could somebody put some light on this?
> 
> Date: 2002/12/16 lun. PM 03:03:53 GMT-05:00
> Cc: "'Michael Stephan'" <mstephan at attbi.com>
> 
> On 2002-12-16, Narins, Josh uttered to 'Michael Stephan' and...:
> 
> >Finnish people tend to brag about their system
> 
> Do we really? Anyways what we now have is:
> 
> Presidential elections: The first round is a majority vote. If no one
> candidate gets a majority, the two leading candidates from the first round
> go head-to-head. There have been recent examples of splintering, too, if
> memory serves. (I haven't been paying attention to electoral matters for
> too long.)
> 
> Municipal elections: Each municipality is a single district. Open party
> list proportional representation is used with d'Hondt's rule.
> 
> Parliamentary and EU elections: The country has been divided into 15 fixed
> geographic districts. Each gets seats in proportion to the size of the
> population in the district half a year before the election. Within each
> district the same procedure is used in the case of municipal elections.
> 
> Lists do not necessarily go by party lines. They are created either by
> registered parties or by associations of 100 individuals or more (less in
> municipal elections). Parties and electoral associations can combine
> lists. Combined lists are a common strategy, especially for smaller
> parties. The maximum number of candidates on each final list is the
> greater of 14 or the number of representatives chosen from a district in
> parliamentary and EU elections, 1.5 times the number of representatives
> chosen in the case of municipal elections.
> 
> (BTW, to shake any on-list US libertarians a bit, population counts aren't
> derived from a census. Instead they're drawn from the Population Register
> Centre database, which, I tell you, tends to be accurate. There's no
> registration for a vote, either -- they know your NID, name, phone number,
> address, age, parents, spouse, origin, religion, everything. A slip will
> just arrive in the mail for each election. How's that for spooky? ;)
> 
> >I think they have sophisticated voting for both their elections and
> >their assmebly procedure (rules of debate)
> 
> Assembly procedures I know absolutely nothing about, thankfully.
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