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Finland also has voter-decided party list order, but here you still vote for a single candidate - the party list gets ordered according to votes received by ind
by AnssiH 5y ago
Finland also has voter-decided party list order, but here you still vote for a single candidate - the party list gets ordered according to votes received by individual members.
Seats are distributed to party lists according to their vote share, and then within a party list according to the individual vote amounts.
And you just write the candidate number on the ballot (see e.g. photo in this news article: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/yle_news_explains_voting_in_finlands_parliamentary_election/10662472 https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/yle_news_explains_voting_...), so it is quite simple. The voting booth has a list of candidate numbers if you don't know yours.
- speeder 5y agoHere in Brazil it works this way and unfortunately we found out it is kind of bad idea. We had a couple corrupt parties convince inexperienced people that were wildly popular to run for them, these people (for example one guy is a circus clown that wrote some music that went viral) then get massive amounts of votes, and drag with them to the parliament all the corrupt politicians.
- karatinversion 5y agoSounds like proportional representation working as intended?