--- On Thu, 30/4/09, Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com wrote:
In Ireland, the constitution requires at least 3 per
constituency and
over time the average number of seats per constituency is
being
reduced. It is currently illegal (by statutory law)
for
constituencies to have more than 5 seats.
Juho Laatu Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:33 PM
In Ireland, the constitution requires at least 3 per constituency and
over time the average number of seats per constituency is being
reduced. It is currently illegal (by statutory law) for
constituencies to have more than 5 seats.
It is a rather huge problem. It effects the proportionately
surprisingly little though - all the major parties still win a roughly
fair number of seats. Districting tends to produce much more
proportional results than the seat size would suggest, as random
political differences in geography
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Juho Laatu juho4...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
It practice that seems to set the limits
to max 4 and min 2 parties/groupings per
constituency represented in the Dail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_30th_D%C3%A1il\
The small constituency sizes do hurt the
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Anthony O'Neal watermar...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a rather huge problem. It effects the proportionately surprisingly
little though - all the major parties still win a roughly fair number of
seats. Districting tends to produce much more proportional results
