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The lack of proportional representation is a feature of single winner districts, as opposed to multi-winner districts, not national vs federal.
by mortehu 8y ago
The lack of proportional representation is a feature of single winner districts, as opposed to multi-winner districts, not national vs federal.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI am not even saying we need full proportional representation but just some element so a party that gets voted for by a certain percentage of people can get some foothold. Right now you can't maintain a third party because the threshold to have an impact is way too high.
- mortehu 8y agoThe Scandinavian countries have something like this, called leveling seats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_seat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_seat
- sampo 8y agoThe Scandinavian countries have voting systems that are approximately proportional in the core. Then they use those leveling seats to fix the sub-5% differences in the vote proportions and the seats. But that's just a small correction if we are comparing voting systems that are not proportional in their design at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_meth... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method