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The German system, mixed-member proportional voting, satisfies the desire for a single locality based representative while still having the overall legislative

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  It shares the lack of individual direct accountability to the electorate (for some members) that all party-list systems have; STV avoids this but practically requires looser partisan proportionality (but still far better than single-member FPTP districts.)
  • LeanderK 10y ago
    if you ever to overhang seats, they are few and only occurs if the won seats don't match the proportion. As somebody living in germany, i don't feel like it creates many problems in practice.
• rmc 10y ago
  Ireland has propotional representation with locality based representatives
  • talideon 10y ago
    And STV works well for Ireland, and I think would also work well for state-level elections in the US. The only thing is that it doesn't scale up super well, and might not work quite so well for congressional elections, though IRV might work if they wanted to keep single-member districts, even if it's less proportional than proper multi-member STV. Regardless, it'd be an improvement on FPTP and reduce the spoiler factor.