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As far as I'm aware Australia just uses the same voting system as the UK, Ireland and New Zealand–i.e. almost the entirety of the non-American Anglo-sphere. Is
by lucideer 8y ago
As far as I'm aware Australia just uses the same voting system as the UK, Ireland and New Zealand–i.e. almost the entirety of the non-American Anglo-sphere. Is there something else unique about how Australia does it?
The Open List system used in most of Europe (with France, parts of Germany, and Spanish congress being notable exceptions) seems like a very good, successful one also.
- feral 8y agoIn the Republic of Ireland we use single transferable vote with proportional representation (which I think is a really good voting system, although a bit complex to understand the operation of). UK is still first past the post for MPs. Australia seems to be different again but not first past the post.
- rectang 8y agoSTV is complex when there are multiple winners. It still produces a broadly representative result, but it is hard to understand how the mechanism worked near the margins that determine which candidates prevail near the lower threshold. When there are is only one winner and STV is exactly the same as instant runoff, it is not so difficult to understand.
- lucideer 8y ago> UK is still first past the post for MPs. This surprised me but you're right. NI have(/had?) STV, but not Westminster. Very odd. > Australia seems to be different again This was my question really. Australia uses IRV, afaik, which is somewhat equivalent to STV except that it's slightly simpler, though I don't see any major disadvantage to the extra complexities in STV.