[EM] Filling Unscheduled Vacancies With PR

[Stephane Rouillon]

No Alex,

new parties or new independents would be forbidden.
It has nothing to do with candidate-based or party-based systems.
A defeated independent candidate could run again for a by-election.
Maybe (1/number of seats) would be a too easy threshold to reach,
but it is another kind of problem. Still independents can gather support in
only one
district...
The clone labelling problem described by Bjarke stays for now.

Steph

Alex Small a écrit :

> Stephane Rouillon said:
> > Or you could either:
> >
> > - forbid new parties for a by-election;
>
> That works for party-lists.  It doesn't work as well for candidate-based
> methods (e.g. STV) because candidates are free to call themselves
> independents.
>
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