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Yeah, Ireland doesn’t use IRV for parliament. Their link is referring to the Irish presidential election, which does use IRV—but it’s a meaningless figurehead
by TimorousBestie 1y ago
Yeah, Ireland doesn’t use IRV for parliament.
Their link is referring to the Irish presidential election, which does use IRV—but it’s a meaningless figurehead position, so it’s unclear how relevant the comparison is.
- enragedcacti 1y agoThat's a good point, I was grouping IRV and PR-STV when proportional representation isn't a guaranteed component of a ranked-choice system (though many of the dem implemented RCV systems do use it for things like county board or city council seats). Australia's House does use IRV and is at 12% (or 15% if you subtract two vacancies from the major parties). Also to note, there's nothing technically stopping the US House from moving to proportional representation along with ranked-choice and dems have proposed it recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Representation_Act_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Representation_Act_(Unite... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Unite...
- TimorousBestie 1y agoI am a huge fan of proportional representation/multimember districts, but I think there are some valid arguments that they are not constitutional (and a lot of invalid arguments that may nonetheless carry the day—c’est la vie américaine).
- selimthegrim 1y agoBaker vs. Carr and equivalent decisions are a big problem