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

[Juho]

On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:27 , Raph Frank wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> 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 ?

The system works quite fine. It is a basic party based open list  
election using d'Hondt within each district separately.

The planned reform would count proportionality at national level and  
then guide seat allocation at district level to reflect this national  
level proportionality. In this way one would get rid of the current  
bias caused by districts of different sizes (the smallest ones have  
only 6 seats).

After this problem will be fixed my next complaint would be that the  
system doesn't support party internal proportionality. Trees would  
help here. Why not STV too but trees would be smaller and more  
natural next step (one could consider allowing ranked votes at the  
next reform after that :-) ).

Juho





		
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