On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Juho <[email protected]> wrote: > Another approach to systems between proportional representation and the > two-party approach could be to have a proportional method but use districts > with only very few representatives (2, 3,...). That would provide rough but > in principle accurate proportionality and still give space only to few major > parties. (Obviously my definition of full proportionality must be "with 1/n > of the votes you will get one seat (where n = number of representatives)".)
You mean a hybrid of multi-constituency PR and party list PR, or just PR at the district level? If the legislature was elected using 2 seat constituencies, then balance of power in the legislature would be decided by the few districts where one or other party is near to 2/3 majority. If both parties were roughtly 1/2 each, then most districts would end up electing one from each party. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
