<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El jue., 10 de feb. de 2022 1:23 a. m., Colin Champion <colin.champion@routemaster.app> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Kristofer posted some thoughts about Hare-clustered multi-member PR <br>
which I don't understand.<br>
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Would I be right in thinking that the aim of multi-member PR, under a <br>
spatial model, is to elect a set of candidates for a constituency such <br>
that the average distance from a voter to the nearest candidate is <br>
minimised? </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I thing tour variational principle is on the right track... it generalizes the median voter idea as the one whose average distance to the other voters is minimized.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But the objective function needs to put more pressure on equalizing the size of the constituencies of the respective representatives.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To that end I suggest electing the slate of candidates that minimizes the following quotient...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The average distance of the constituents to their representatives...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Divided by</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The geometric mean of the cardinalities of the respective constituencies.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In this case, does it not follow that two candidates who are <br>
close to each other ("belong to the same party") will ideally never be <br>
elected?<br>
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CJC<br>
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