[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racialminorities

[Raph Frank]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 20:23 , James Gilmour wrote:
>
>>> I think a system that requires people to rank 10-20+
>>> candidates is going to run into trouble.
>>
>> I don't see why there should be such large numbers of candidates in real
>> public elections with modestly sized electoral districts.
>
> In the last parliamentary elections I had 179 candidates to choose from.
> This district elected 18 of the 200 representatives. The population of the
> district is maybe somewhat below 500,000.

For comparison, in Ireland, the average constituency size is around 4 seats
and around 100k people.

How did the ballot work, was it arranged by party ?

> Note also that candidates may "grow" in this system. Getting many but not
> enough votes this time may mean that in the next elections one will be seen
> as a much more potential winner.

Yeah.

In Ireland, politicians often start by getting elected to the county council.
This gives them a platform/support base in order to aim for the Dail.