Sentences with phrase «electoral system»

The many democratic electoral systems in use around the world attempt to strike a balance between mathematical fairness and political considerations such as accountability and the need for strong, stable government.

I support the first past the post electoral system because I believe it is without question the most democratic.

Alongside the next general election there should be a binding referendum on whether to change to a new more proportional electoral system.

Ask most people whether our current electoral system is fair and they will tell you no.

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

The «first past the post» electoral system means we can't predict the result with certainty, nor expect it to match the vote.

, which uses the formal language of fashion as a pathway to start a dialogue around the flaws of the American electoral system.

This suggests that the party might achieve the kind of levels of popular support it normally only wins in European elections, even without the benefit of a PR electoral system.

The result is that increasingly we are said to be in a four or five party electoral system, where voters feel less and less enthusiasm for established political parties.

To state the obvious, Labour must win power under the existing electoral system before it can change it.

This system is sometimes referred to as a jungle primary or majority electoral system.

The problem is that a progressive split, with our present electoral system, means letting the united right win everywhere.

Whether or not electoral systems behave as political scientist think they «should» depends largely on the dynamics of protest voting.

The AV electoral system is used, with the winning candidate needing to secure 50 % + 1 votes on first - or lower preferences.

We have also worked very hard indeed to perfect our specific electoral systems.

But this in itself is no guarantee of inevitable change in the representational share between the major and minor parties, especially in single - member district electoral systems.

They want to fight on the old electoral system — but on the new boundaries.

Public financing — if properly run and monitored — can help create a more robust electoral system.

It doesn't take more than basic general knowledge about politics and electoral systems in other countries to know that this is just utterly wrong.

New parties are always crushed by our first - past - the - post electoral system.

And, he added, our current electoral system is really about choosing a government, not representatives of the people.

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

This will inevitably lead to a renewed debate over an electoral reform and a move toward a more proportional electoral system.

The table below lists the countries that use a PR electoral system to fill a nationwide elected body.

Labour's top candidate for Scotland is David Martin, who has been an MEP since 1984, when he represented Lothians (prior to the introduction of the reformed electoral system for European elections in 1999).

It is something that we as a country have been discussing for around 100 years or so, and we have introduced changed electoral systems to a number of Assemblies and Parliaments in the UK without referendums in the past.

This time — with the important caveat set out below — the more people who vote Liberal Democrat on 6 May, the greater the chance that this will be Britain's last general election under a first - past - the - post electoral system which is wholly unsuited to the political needs of a grown - up 21st - century democracy.

Even with high - quality survey data with huge sample sizes, predicting hundreds of constituency - level results in a first - past - the - post electoral system with varying patterns of interparty competition remains a risky business.

A number of electoral systems use single - member districts, including plurality voting (first past the post), two - round systems, instant - runoff voting (IRV), approval voting, range voting, Borda count, and Condorcet methods (such as the Minimax Condorcet, Schulze method, and Ranked Pairs).

-LRB-...) since the constitution, unlike many of its European counterparts, does not prescribe proportional representation in elections, no feature of the new electoral system discussed so far appears to be unconstitutional.

Legislated quotas are more frequently used in PR List electoral systems where it is easier to combine quotas with lists of party candidates due to higher district magnitudes and more candidates per party in each constituency.

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

He also leaves his party before winning his battle to shift the British electoral system away from first past the post to a proportional representation system which would significantly push up his party's share of Commons seats.

Given how the First Past The Post electoral system works, concentrated support can translate into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that matters).

Detailed information on electoral systems applying to the first chamber of the legislature is maintained by the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network.

Therefore, there was no need for a new labor party (because the Democrats had already picked up that program) and because there was no meaningful way for such a movement to grow (because the U.S. electoral system only supports two large parties).

This is largely a consequence of electoral system design choices, and can be remedied through the implementation of career - stage constituencies.

With elections across the UK today using a range of alternative electoral systems to First Past The Post, Dr Kenneth Bunker assesses the opportunity for future electoral reform.

[103][104](See also the complete list of electoral systems by country.)

[40] The British electoral system makes it hard for the Conservatives to form a government without winning some city seats outside its rural heartlands, such as the Lib Dem Bristol West constituency, where the Conservatives came third in 2005 after holding the seat until 1997.

Increasingly, our democracy recognises that fact, with fairer electoral systems and more power - sharing between parties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, none of which has a legitimate majority on its own.

• Elections to be held on a regional basis, using partial open lists, in a similar electoral system as for European parliamentary elections.