Sentences with phrase «av +»

Alternative Vote with Top - up (AV +) What it is: Voters elect both a constituency MP via AV, and a «top - up» MP from a regional list.

AV +, advocates a «top - up» - an extra group of MPs whose election is based on regional votes for parties, he explained.

The commission reported in September 1998 and suggested the alternative vote top - up or AV + system, which would directly elect some MPs by the alternative vote, with a number of additional members elected from top up lists similarly to mixed member proportional representation.

[4] This was confirmed in February 2011, when the referendum on AV (not AV +) was approved by Parliament.

After the 2010 election, with a hung parliament, and the Liberal Democrats potentially holding the balance of power, AV + was again the subject of discussion, as a potential part of a coalition deal.

This system was proposed by the Independent Commission in 1999, known as Alternative vote top - up (AV +).

And serious proposals for reform like Roy Jenkins» AV + or better still the Single Transferable Vote?

Had we gone ahead with Jenkins» AV +, then the progressive majority that exists in the country would have been translated into the election results and the progressive rainbow coalition touted last May that was a nice - but - impossible idea would have been entirely workable.

Most tellingly, in May 2009, the Liberal Democrats launched a website called TakeBackPower.org which recognised the practical difficulties of forcing the UK to adopt STV, and instead committed the party to supporting a referendum on AV +, to take effect the next general election after May 2010.

Unless the result is even more dramatic than the polls suggest, AV + is likely to be the voting system for the general election that follows 2010.

If Conservatives could get a majority of cross-bench peers to block changes to the electoral system, then it would at least impede the introduction of AV + for General Elections.

Lib - Lab coalition For all the differences that Labour and the Liberal Democrats might claim during debates and on the campaign trail, it seems probable that a deal to put AV + to a referendum as part of wider constitutional reform would be one of the first measures of a Lib - Lab coalition.

Their proposal is for a more proportional system than AV or AV +, but not the purest form of PR as might be found in South Africa or Israel.

Although the Liberal Democrat manifesto refers to STV as their «preferred» solution, their commitment is only to «a fair, more proportional voting system» and leaves the possibility of accepting AV + open.

(While Jenkins is excellent as analysis, the weakness of Jenkins» own AV + scheme as advocacy was to try to do everything in one place - the electoral system for the Commons - whereas the debate is a different one if we can have a more pluralist constitution with many more checks and balances).

[2] Despite the research carried out by the Jenkins Commission in 1998 suggesting an AV + system for Westminster elections, the 2001 manifesto did not make such a promise.

As well as AV not being proportional, it also falls far short even of the system Labour dangled briefly in front of Paddy Ashdown in the late - 90s, AV + (which combines AV with a slightly proportional element).

AV + is an additional member system.

In practice, I think many STV advocates (such as many LibDems) would be keen to see a quick AV + referendum (which was Clegg's proposal recently as well as Alan Johnson's).

For example, that could be FPTP vs AV +, or multi-options, or there might be a version of a referendum which was linked to a citizens convention proposal.

Given that AV + already had a form of public consultation process around it (Jenkins Commission), there is some merit - as well as simplicity in terms of timescales and process - in having a FPTP vs AV + referendum.

AMS / AV + would almost certainly be easier than STV, which would require huge constituencies for rural areas (and even under FPTP, there are inequalities in constituency membership because of the difficulties caused by excessive size), but then a whole new can of worms would be opened up concerning how to set the ratio between corrective «top - up» MPs, and constituency MPs, plus a whole load of other factors such as whether to allow dual standing, whether the two votes should be two choices or interconnected, whether the list should be open or closed, etc., etc..

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

«I know AV may not be the favourite voting system of everyone here, but whether you prefer this, AV +, the single transferable vote or any another model, we all agree that AV is infinitely fairer than what we have at the moment,» he said.

For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?

The problem is that Blunkett is a compulsive statist who really loves power without the constraints that regular coalitions or party alliances would introduce as a consequence of electoral reform with some element of PR — such as the proposals of the Hansard Society in 1976 or the AV + prosposals of the Jenkins Commission: http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=56

John Rentoul prefers the two - ballot system and Philip Blond wants a multi-option referendum with AV + in the mix as well.

I'll confine my discussion to AV, rather than AV + which I oppose more vigorously.

Who is going to support AV when most Conservatives want to retain FPTP and most progressives want STV or AV +?

Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

I agree that AV + supporters are pretending that this isn't a real choice, but I think primary supporters underestimate it as well.

Well said giro, if the Labour Party wholeheartedly supported the referendum and introduced an amendment to add the option for AV + or STV, they would gain greatly from a strategic perspective: 1) It would put them firmly into the spotlight as the progressive party.

(Give me benevolent dictator powers, and I might go for an AV / AMS 50 - 50 hybrid rather than AV + or AMS, though I would see straight AV, with PR second chamber and STV in local government as a very good advance in the real world; and think there is a coherent case).

I would support AV +.

AV + is a common sense solution.

However, I guess one might then anticipate greater support for the three current major parties to counter that, and the effect might be somewhat countered by using AV + and STV systems which can tend to reward more pluralist parties with broader support who can win transfers, as against non-preferential PR systems (like those in Scotland and Wales) which may be more prone to fragmentation.

- Here, AV + is a difficult issue for some, because it is a hybrid system.

The bill is currently missing a better option: AV + as recommended by the Jenkins Commission.

They would do less well under AV +, but probably better under AV + than AV.

The disadvantages of AV + are that it introduces some arguments (complexity, two classes of MP) which might make the reform argument more difficult.

Even if some of the Yes2Av folks think AV isn't the best system in the world in comparison to AV +, STV or more proportional systems they regard it as much better than FPTP.

Conservatives would obtain the boundary changes they made in the coalition agreement, while AV + is consistent with that agreement as it is still AV.

Not exact matches

AV has over $ 25 + million in gross sales, experiencing a 45 % growth rate in winegrapes since 1995 and a 55 % growth rate in bulk wine since 1998.

If you haven't heard yet, here's the good news: RAW Wine Fair, the natural wine expo originally founded in London, is popping - up in Bushwick this weekend, Sun + Mon Nov 6 - 7 (99 Scott Av in Brooklyn, a 5 - minute walk from the Jefferson L Train).

That's why I showed numbers for both 6 + AV and 8 + AV, as I was trying to weed out «low quality / high snap» rookies from the bunch.

It's too easy to be a decent (but unimpressive) rookie OG on a decent line in a decent offense IF you are giving starter reps.. By observation, 8 + AV seemed to show more quality, and as you can see the drop there is much more gradual.

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For example, LabourList's monthly «state of the party» straw poll of about 500 of its readership saw Yes finally establish a 20 % + lead among this super-engaged audience, which had been split and agnostic on AV throughout.

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