Here in Ontario we had a plebicite on electoral reform alongside our last provincial election, asking voters to choose between "first past the post" and "mixed-member proportional" systems; MMP would be implemented if it received a 66% majority overall and a majority in all ridings. The returns came in 68% for FPTP; MMP was viewed as too cumbersome (and potentially abusable by party whips) to be worth the gains.
Total Representation, I think, would've had a better showing though I'm far from certain it would've achieved the necessary supermajority.
-- Steve objects to political systems that further empower party fanatics, with a particular eye on the toxic sump that is Israel's pure-PR Knesset.
Total Representation doesn't seem to provide any incentive for the party holding a safe seat to do much campaigning there: it doesn't matter whether you win by 10% or 30%, you still only get the one MP for that seat, and the excess votes cast for your successful local candidate won't count towards electing your party's other candidates at the second stage.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-05-12 12:01 pm
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Total Representation, I think, would've had a better showing though I'm far from certain it would've achieved the necessary supermajority.
-- Steve objects to political systems that further empower party fanatics, with a particular eye on the toxic sump that is Israel's pure-PR Knesset.
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