Sentences with phrase «different voting systems in»

We can already see different voting systems in action across Australian parliaments, with Hare - Clark in Canberra and Tasmania.

So: why are there so many different voting systems in use across the UK?

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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.

There are many different political systems which engage in the economic system referenced by the Pope and I don't read where the Pope criticises any of them, including ours here in the US which, I assume, is the only one in which Varney gets to vote.

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.

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

The research from the Electoral Reform Society Wales also reveals how the different parties would fare if Wales used the Single Transferable Vote, the system used to choose MPs in Ireland.

The results in Scotland mean that they either need a collapse of the SNP or a different voting system if they are to get into government again.

It's certainly not unlikely that with a different voting system, primaries would work differently, and the Republican primary campaign in particular was a classic example of vote splitting among essentially identical candidates.

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.

This political diversity — coupled with fairer voter systems that ensure a reasonable proportional translation of votes into seats — inevitably leads to different forms of government: with minority administrations to be formed in both Scotland and Wales.

Cuomo also is creating a new voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

One could (and perhaps should) look at legislation like the Truth in Sentencing Act as a vote of non-confidence in the judiciary and its values, or at the very least as a product of the different lenses through which the government and the courts view the justice system.