Sentences with phrase «different election system»

What you are arguing for, then, is not a different election system, but a different governmental system.

Based on that, I would think that any countries with different election system than the United States would have been more representative.

(Maybe not in Germany due to the different election system, but even there these muslim MPs had to convince their party that they should be given a high enough spot on the party election list).

Not exact matches

Since the U.S. election system operates through a patchwork of different systems in each state, Graff believes it would difficult to pull off a large - scale breach.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

The Abacus study also asked those who voted in the 2015 Canadian General Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral Election to rank a ballot that included the main political parties and generated data for 11 regions to estimate, with increased precision, the outcome of the Canadian election had it been run under different electoral election had it been run under different electoral systems.

This is a bit dated, but Frontline had a piece during the lead - up to the 2008 election on different healthcare systems from other democracies (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan).

There is no point having PR for both the Commons and Lords — every voting system has some flaw or other, so it's better to have different means of election to both chambers if both are elected, with the purpose of each correcting the other's flaws.

And, if we've kept first past the post at Westminster, why have parties in power allowed different systems to proliferate in less important elections?

The report, written by elections experts, academic Prof. Roger Scully and ERS Wales» researcher Dr Owain ap Gareth, the report compares projections of what the results could have looked like under different voting systems and questions the impact of the proposed Boundary Changes.

On AV, I think it is more complicated, as neither you nor I can say we know what the pattern of 1st preferences would be in the first AV General Election, still less do any of us know what the overall candidate and party system look like, and the way in which different candidates and parties might interact over two or three elections.

The report details what the results in the 2011 Assembly election could have looked like under different voting systems.

Elections would take place on the same day as the general election on an open - list system from eight different regions.

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.

In a hung parliament situation the most likely scenario is another election a few months later and until we have a different electoral system it will ever be thus.

Former president of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, has long argued for an overhaul of the election system, and there are many different proposals for how the enlargement effects could be avoided.

However STV is not a PR system and the degree of proportionality depends on how votes for the different parties are distributed across the country, and other variables such as the size of the multimember constituencies and the numbers of parties competing in the election.

For each of the four elections that occur in Wales (now excluding elections to the European Parliament), a different electoral system is used.

The First Past The Post electoral system exacerbates divisions between the different parts of Britain, adding to pressures that could break the union, with Thursday's General Election potentially hastening this process.

In 1976, the Hansard Society recommended that a mixed electoral system in a form different from the German be used for UK parliamentary elections, but instead of using closed party lists, it proposed that seats be filled by the «best runner - up» basis used by the German state of Baden - Wurttemberg, where the compensatory seats are filled by the party's defeated candidates who were the «best near - winner» in each of the state's four regions.

HB 1767 Requires all appellate judges be elected via contested elections unless November 2014 constitutional amendment providing for different system approved by voters.