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I don't know about Australia but in Ireland most elections are done with proportional representation and the method is called Single Transferable Vote in that c

I don't know about Australia but in Ireland most elections are done with proportional representation and the method is called Single Transferable Vote in that context (and has different properties). According to Wikipedia only the president (a role with little power) and by-elections are single candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Republic_of_I... IMO, this is a great way to do it and the proportional representation part is more important than the details of voting method.

godelski 6y ago
STV is IRV (well slight variant: Single Winner STV). Fair Vote has muddled the name by calling it Ranked Choice Voting. This is dumb because there is a class of voting methods where you rank people (ordinal). Ireland is doing better than Australia in terms of party control. > IMO, this is a great way to do it and the proportional representation part is more important than the details of voting method. And I 100% agree with this. The math does too. That's why I advocate so hard for a better voting system. In America we don't have that advantage (I want that too!). But everyone thinks that if we get IRV in Bernie could win. That's not how it works out.