[EM] Preferential Party List Method Proposal

James Gilmour jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk
Sat Aug 13 16:32:14 PDT 2011


Greg Nisbet  > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:25 PM
> All current forms of party list proportional representation 
> have each voter cast a vote for a single party. I say this is 
> inadequate since a small party can be eliminated and hence 
> denied any representation (this is particularly relevant if 
> the legislature has a threshold). However, votes for a party 
> that doesn't have sufficient support to win any seats in the 
> legislature are simply wasted.

Not necessarily so.  See "apparentement".  Parties can "chain" their votes so that fewer votes are wasted in the seat allocation
calculations.

James Gilmour




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