Sentences with phrase «transferable vote basis»

In Northern Ireland local and Assembly elections (and Scottish local elections), voting is done on a single transferable vote basis which sees more than one candidate elected from a single constituency.

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Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

In 1948, single transferable vote proportional representation on a state - by - state basis became the method for electing Senators to the Australian Senate.

So the next best thing would be open list or STV (single transferable vote), which are better for democracy as they are candidate - based as opposed to party - based and, as the research demonstrates, better for the Conservative Party.

The single transferable vote system used in Ireland, for example, elects more than one MP to each constituency on a proportional basis.