Sentences with phrase «voting system tends»

And because our archaic voting system tends towards the creation of safe seats, there are a lot of places where incumbents stay in position for a long time.

Not exact matches

We are not to intellectualize in a way that removes our focus from the very practical concerns of tending the sick, caring for the vulnerable, participating in community life (like Calvin, who concerned himself with the sewage systems in Geneva) or voting, getting the car fixed, recycling old newspapers, making meals.

In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

Unfortunately, without it the system tends to suffer from the problem you mentioned upfront, strategic voting.

The result of all this is that FPTP bodies tend towards dual party systems after a while; the similar candidates fight it out in primaries so that in the real election, there's only two major choices and the effect of vote splitting is minimized.

This system is very proportional but it may tend to favour larger parties somewhat if many votes are heavily fragmented across many smaller parties.

In principle any system with repeated elections does this to some extent as regards politicians, in that people tend not to vote for a politician or party which is thought to breaks promises.

It is especially obvious when epsilon tends to 0: then, the voting system is equivalent to system X, whatever it is.

You are voting to make Scotland's voice heard in that system that has so often in the past tended to side - line and ignore Scotland.

In a multi-party landscape, a first - past - the post voting system with single - member constituencies will tend to produce governments which enjoy only minority popular support.

UKIP tend to fall out of the news a lot between elections, I expect that they will hold or improve their vote slightly on last time in the European Elections and in the General Election, especially in a campaign where they have a number of elected representatives and where the list system works in their favour.

Instituting runoff voting, proportional representation, will create a multi-party system that tends to do around the world — and then, you have shifting coalitions depending on the issue.