Sentences with phrase «different electoral systems»

Sunder: there are two main arguments for and against different electoral systems, both of which have featured in the traditional debate within Labour.

So how about «Of course, any party can keep its shiny primaries under many different electoral systems.

Multiple chambers elected by different electoral systems at different times in the electoral cycle would provide such safeguards, as I have outlined before.

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 systems.

«If we had a different electoral system,» says Chuka Umunna, the highly rated Labour candidate for Streatham, «perhaps we would have been bolder in challenging Thatcher's legacy and regulating the City.»

UKIP's leader is chosen in a similar way but with a different electoral system.

Such figures are only estimates because there's no guarantee that people would vote the same way under a different electoral system.

Under a different electoral system, it would have had even more success.

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.

BUT, the libs want a different electoral system... a proportional system, rather than winner take all.

The scale of the left wing MP's victory even surpasses that of Tony Blair's 57 per cent of all votes cast — albeit under a different electoral system.

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

«AV is a little short of proportional representation» Interviewed on Channel 4 News, Nick Clegg told Jon Snow the government was bringing two things together: giving people a say on whether they want a different electoral system, and secondly, making sure that your vote is worth the same value, wherever you live.

Not exact matches

The different level of popular support that these parties have in each country, and the particular characteristics of each electoral system, makes it difficult to predict whether nationalist parties will become more prominent fixtures in European politics as the economic crisis plays out.

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.

We despair at Italy's persistent tinkering with electoral laws, an obsession based on the false assumption that other systems would produce fundamentally different outcomes.

In this form, the plurality principle can be problematic and ambiguous given the disproportionality of the UK's first - past - the - post electoral system, as a result of which the party with the largest number of seats may be different from the party which wins most votes.

Surely, it is perfectly intellectually credible to support a majoritarian electoral system: it just weights different things about democracy differently.

Inference drawn: no analysis of what past electoral behaviour would have been under a different system is possible.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, the Labour leader said the comparison with the Kinnock era was misleading as the electoral system then was different to the one under which he was elected last year.

First preference votes need to be filtered through the system of Irish electoral constituencies (and the different numbers of seats that are apportioned to these).

Yes, there are different views about strategy and tactics, and substantively too about which electoral system would be best.

As in any bicameral system, peers should be elected on a different constituency basis and electoral cycle to MPs.

«Is there not now a case for asking voters themselves about what kind of electoral systems can best contribute to different forms of politics and what they want to see from our political system in this country?»

So, why should our electoral system be different?

There is not going to be electoral reform any time soon — maybe not for a generation — so both Ukip and the Greens are going to have to find a different way of working the system to their favour.

(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).

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.

The effect of electoral reform and a more proportional system, would be to create a different kind of parliament in a post expenses world, she claimed.

The science occurs when different voting systems are considered: the electoral college vs majority rule vs approval voting vs rank voting.

Works to provide legal research, assistance and education on different legal topics, and specialise in transitional justice and the monitoring of the electoral system.