Single Transferable Vote and the Party System
MatGB has a post on how Single Transferable Vote gets around most of the problems with the current party structures used in our elections, includign a point about this system that I did not know
safe seats do not exist in STVIf this is the case then it is a very good thing, and certainly better than Party List systems of Proportional Representation which are what many people think of when if comes to PR where almost all of the seats are safe.
posted by chris at 3/21/2006 01:13:00 pm
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Damn, meant to quote your comment about Sanders being good because of marginality in that post; that's what I get for writing at 3am with insomnia.
As it happens, if Britain implemented STV, odds are there may be a few single-member constituencies about (Highlands and Islands and whatever CKs constituency is called), for purely geographic concerns, which theoretically ould make a safe seat.
But the advantage of STV is no one candidate from a party is guaranteed to win; the party may get a number of seats, but which candidates get in is up to the electors.
Irish politicians complain they have to work hard to keep their local support base up. Diddums.
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