In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"P.G.Hamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > You could of course have the voters choose which people will be
elected
> > from each party, instead of letting the parties rank their
candidates
> > on a list. This is how it works in Finland.
>
> Sounds interesting.
>
> How many members of parliament are there in Finland?
> How many votes do you get?
> How long is the list of alternatives if the vote(s) are transferable?
> How would this scale to a country with a significantly bigger
parliament?
>
> Peter
The Finnish parliament has 200 seats. The country is divided into
fifteen constituencies in order to ensure that all parts of the country
are represented in proportion to their population.
The candidates in the constituency are given a number each. The ballot
paper is a blank piece of paper with just a circle on. In this circle,
the voter writes the number of the candidate.
When the votes are counted, they first add all candidates for a certain
party to see how many seats that party will get in that constituency.
Then the candidate that got the highest number of votes gets the first
seat for his/her party, the second in number of votes the second seat
etc.
There is no transferable vote system.
And this would work fine, no matter the size of the parliament. At
least as long as the country is divided into a number of
constituencies. (If the country was only one constituency and the
parliament was relatively big, the "less attractive" candidates perhaps
wouldn't get that many votes).
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