[EM] Proportional multi-winner ranked voting methods - guidelines?

Stéphane Rouillon stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca
Thu Feb 23 10:56:37 PST 2017


I agree with Richard Lung: STV could very well fit for a country using many representatives in bigger districts. I do not understand Mr. Fobes critics'...

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Le 23 févr. 2017 à 13:43, James Gilmour <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk> a écrit :

>> Richard Fobes (VoteFair)  Sent: 23 February 2017 17:54
>> However, as I stated before, STV would not provide fair results if it were used for a full national legislature.
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>> Recently, in Canada, some people have been promoting the idea of using STV to elect about 5 MPs (members of parliament) from
>> each district (which they call a "riding").  That would produce very unfair results!
>> That's what I had in mind when I referred to using STV repeatedly.
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> Please see the attached results of some STV-PR elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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> If Canada had results like those from its Federal and Provincial elections no-one would be calling for electoral reform in Canada.
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> James Gilmour
> Edinburgh, Scotland
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