>Therefore any electoral wins in constituencies (districts) will be offset by having the entitlement to a Party List MP reduced by the same number. The only vote that really counts in this system is therefore the Party List vote. This is a good thing of course, because the number of seats for a party is proportional to the number of the votes. Somehow you make it sound like a bad thing. The consituency candidates have a close connection with a locality which is not necessarily the case with party lists. >or four years. This can be applied to a range of elections, whether for single member constituencies, such as the Australian House of Representatives or to multi member constituencies elected by STV proportional representation, such as the Irish Dail. The non-ordinal systems are, IMHO, poor alternatives that might be better suited to less numerate societies. Olli Salmi >From a less numerate society
