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If only the established parties who already have seats in parliament get funding, does that favor the establishment and make it difficult for new parties to win
by MichaelApproved 15y ago
If only the established parties who already have seats in parliament get funding, does that favor the establishment and make it difficult for new parties to win seats? Genuinely curious.
- ojbyrne 15y agoTo some extent, but I think they just need to win 1 or 2 seats. So it can be a local effort. Funding lets them be more national.
- dlitz 15y agoProbably, but so does single-member district plurality voting, which is what we currently have. :-/
- bkirwi 15y agoIf you're still interested: the funding is / was distributed by number of votes, not number of seats won. Any party that gets over 2% of the vote gets a cut, which means the threshold for entry is fairly low. Of course, a party with 50% of the vote will still get 50% of the money, which does favour incumbents.