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The US has a winner-take-all approach. If a district votes 40% party X and 60% party Y, then party Y gets all of the representatives. These numbers are not aty
by mellavora 5y ago
The US has a winner-take-all approach. If a district votes 40% party X and 60% party Y, then party Y gets all of the representatives.
These numbers are not atypical. So generally in the US, 40% of voters are not represented.
A parliamentary democracy with proportional representation would, assuming say 10 seats for a 'state', split those 10 seats according to the vote. So you'd get 40 X'ers and 60 Y'ers.
However, the parliamentary allows smaller parties to emerge, and as the support of a smaller party is necessary to get a majority of overall votes, the smaller parties have real power.