On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:27 , Raph Frank wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the last parliamentary elections I had 179 candidates to choose
from.
This district elected 18 of the 200 representatives. The
population of the
district is maybe somewhat below 500,000.
For comparison, in Ireland, the average constituency size is around
4 seats
and around 100k people.
How did the ballot work, was it arranged by party ?
The system works quite fine. It is a basic party based open list
election using d'Hondt within each district separately.
The planned reform would count proportionality at national level and
then guide seat allocation at district level to reflect this national
level proportionality. In this way one would get rid of the current
bias caused by districts of different sizes (the smallest ones have
only 6 seats).
After this problem will be fixed my next complaint would be that the
system doesn't support party internal proportionality. Trees would
help here. Why not STV too but trees would be smaller and more
natural next step (one could consider allowing ranked votes at the
next reform after that :-) ).
Juho
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