Sentences with phrase «anti-snp tactical voting»

Because of the advantages of tactical voting, most people concentrate on a popular candidate who is good enough.

Even so, some systems (such as winner - take - all) are more heavily impacted by tactical voting than others (such as instant - runoff).

There are also very few ways to game this system by tactical voting.

Among its many advantages is reducing the need for tactical voting.

But there is one problem with this system: It allows to skew the system with tactical voting.

More broadly, it means the possibility always exists that it's in a voter's interest to vote in a way that doesn't reflect their true preferences; in other words, tactical voting is always a factor in elections.

I would prefer a Condorcet - compliant method like Schulze - STV to reduce tactical voting.

Is this open for intentional gaming (via tactical voting) or unintentional skewing of the results towards a film or location, where the winning result does not match most people's preferences?

Possibly one of the last seats to come in is also one of the test cases for the progressive tactical voting.

And in Scotland, which has a greater tradition of tactical voting, the likelihood is that proportion will be much higher — especially if groups like Scotland's Big Voice have an impact.

It removes tactical voting, it encourages positive campaigning, it opens up politics, under STV it can strengthen the constituency link.

We should think about tactical voting.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting in the 2015 general election.

The writing was on the wall for the chief secretary to the Treasury, who even with help from some tactical voting unionists just wasn't able to cobble together anything like the support he needed to stay in Westminster.

But this fails to take tactical voting into account.

We realised that to stop the SNP requesting another referendum and breaking up the UK we would have to limit their impact through tactical voting.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

The group has around 2,000 supporters on Facebook and says it is planning to begin door - knocking in seats where it thinks tactical voting could make a difference.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting.

We are hoping our tactical voting wheel will be effective in the vast majority of seats.

In areas where there was a Yes vote tactical voting is unlikely to work but we still encourage it.

In 2010, patterns of tactical voting which had built up over twenty years helped both parties retain enough marginals to deny David Cameron a majority.

And it has the additional benefits of eliminating the need for tactical voting while conferring greater democratic legitimacy on the elected MP.

Such a push for tactical voting shows the change in Scot politics.

Faced with a surge of SNP support that threatens to have a decisive impact on the makeup of the next government, Scotland - always a part of the UK ripe for this sort of thing - has seen an outbreak of tactical voting in recent weeks.

Those Green party campaigners know how to fight tactical voting.

Looking at the numbers, reinforced by today's Survation poll, her optimism about the powers of tactical voting don't look very realistic.

Fringe parties like Sheridan's Solidarity outfit aside, the bulk of tactical voting is against the SNP.

It has been reported that David Cameron called for tactical voting in The Sunday Times today (e.g. here and here).

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

The problem for Clegg is that this almost certainly depended on tactical voting, which was a major factor in the Liberal Democrats» original 1997 victory in Hallam.

Since some factors suggest an increase and some a decline, we will have to wait for the post election surveys to know how tactical voting changes at this election.

The paper suggested tactical voting to prevent a Conservative victory, given Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system.

Since 1992 about 8 % of voters have been doing this kind of tactical voting.

Also, uncertainty over local candidate order dampens the overall level of tactical voting.

A recent Channel 4 News / YouGov poll suggested otherwise, reporting that potentially 9 Labour and 2 Lib Dem seats could saved from the SNP by tactical voting between unionist parties.

The prospect that the SNP might hoover up the vast bulk of Scotland's representation on little more than 45 % has led to quite a lot of speculation about the possibility of anti-SNP tactical voting.

By contrast Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Thursday made a well argued case for classic anti-Tory tactical voting by Green and Labour supporters.

Traditional tactical voting in our first - past - the - post system involves supporters of parties coming third or lower in their constituency trying to better influence the outcome by voting for one of the top two candidates.

Uncertainty leads to lots of mistakes: tactical voting away from one of the top two candidates in favour of a lower placed one.

Not only is there nothing tactical in this, but the final claim is both false and contrary to the logic of traditional tactical voting.

In both seats there appears to have been significant tactical voting, with the Liberal Democrats likely benefiting from Conservative defectors.

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[479] Writing after the election, Professor John Curtice said that in only one constituency, (Edinburgh South); could it be said that tactical voting succeeded in defeating an SNP candidate.

For those living in constituencies where Labour and the Liberal Democrats are expected to share first and second place, tactical voting by Conservative supporters in favour of the Lib Dems increases the chances that another Con - Lib coalition would have a majority.

Its difficulty probably shows the continued prevalence of tactical voting than the failure of Miliband's «one nation» agenda.

But others may be voting eg for a LibDem in SW London or northern cities without thinking of it as a tactical vote, and may rethink their options.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

So far from ending tactical voting, AV just makes it more complicated.

Some forces previously on Labour's left have joined this campaign, calling for «tactical voting», i.e. not making the priority to maximise the Labour vote.