On Feb 24, 2007, at 2:22 , James Gilmour wrote:
Juho> Sent: 22 February 2007 06:29
On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:50 , Dave Ketchum wrote:
STAY AWAY from US Presidential elections. The Electoral College
offers too many complications to live with for this effort.
Ok, let it be UK then, electing a MP (excluding at least the
Scottish Parliament to stay in the two-party domain). :-)
Someone's a little out of date with the state of UK politics! At the
2005 UK general election (Westminster, House of Commons), Labour
got 35%
of the votes, Conservatives 32% and Liberal Democrats 22%, with 11%
spread across a wide range of other parties. MPs from 12 different
parties were elected. Changed days from 1951 and 1955 when the two
largest parties together took 97% and 96% of all the votes!! The
UK is
the exception that proves Duverger's "law".
James Gilmour
Ok, it would maybe be safest not to refer to any country with an
existing voting system and political history :-). The examples should
work as described for any large scale public Condorcet elections (of
one district) that use winning votes to measure the strength of the
pairwise comparisons.
Juho
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