Questions tagged [voting-systems]
For questions about rule systems for scoring votes. Not for questions about country-specific rules or practices but for the theory and practice of voting systems. Examples include proportional-representation and first-past-the-post.
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What drawbacks are there in preferential voting? [duplicate]
I recently discovered that Australia uses the preferential voting system. It looks like a great system, so great that I do not see any immediate drawbacks.
What are they?
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What is the point of Germany's 299 "party seats" in the Bundestag?
This question about Bundestag elections (How does the German Bundestag election system work?) does a good job at summarising Bundestag elections. Long story short: 299 directly-elected candidate from ...
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Is the single plurality system the same as the winner take all system?
Is the single plurality system the same as the winner take all system? I've heard both terms, and they sound the same. Are they?
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Has negative voting ever been officially implemented in elections, or seriously proposed, or even studied?
I struggled to name what I'm asking about here. I'm talking about the kind of voting that happens on many websites, including stackexchange: you can upvote something (a question), or you can downvote ...
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Do freedom-of-information laws increase corruption?
That's the general conclusion of a 2007 study:
It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of
increasing transparency is through the adoption of Freedom ...
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What would the process look like for adopting Ranked Choice (in particular, instant-runoff) Voting in the US?
I'm not asking to discuss whether Ranked Choice is a good system, or the particulars of how it would be implemented with regards to our electoral college system, or even whether people would choose ...
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What is it called when someone votes for an option that's not their first choice?
Say we have three candidates: A, B, and C.
Say, a voter wants to vote for C. However, he knows that C can’t win and hence choose A instead.
Hence, in a sense, the voter is “dishonest”. He doesn’t ...
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Does the number of constituencies in First Past The Post system affect the strength of third parties?
If the number of constituencies in an assembly elected by FPTP was increased from 200 to 500 will that make it easier for third parties to win seats or does it not have any effect?
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Does running dead happen in elections outside of Australia?
In Australia, to “run dead” means to have a candidate run, but deliberately not do any campaigning, in order for your candidate to come third and be able to direct preferences reliably to another ...
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Why are constituency members and list members elected under MMP/AMS paid the same salary?
Under Mixed Member Proportional representation there are two types of members of parliament some representing constituencies and others elected from closed party lists. Shouldn't members representing ...
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How long does it take to count votes in different voting systems?
In the UK (which uses first-past-the-post voting) the results of elections are usually declared the next day. If the UK (or any other country) switched to single transferable vote or instant-runoff ...
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Are there any electoral systems that give the runner up some office?
Originally, the US constitution specified that the runner up to the president in the electoral college becomes vice president, which would currently be Hillary Clinton instead of Mike Pence. This was ...
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Voting system to elect multiple winners from a large field of candidates
I have a large number of candidates (65) for an award which will be granted to a handful of winners (6). There will be a relatively small number of voters (9). We are looking for a voting method which ...
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What could be an appropriate electoral system, when some of the alternatives are similar to each other?
Let us say people in a certain institution are given the choice to select one of four alternatives. While alternative 1 is to reject a certain policy, alternatives 2,3 and 4 are in favor of putting a ...
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Which voting system gives geographic representation while not requiring districts?
I'm pondering the idea of very small, local councils taking up at least part of city governance. My city is already divided into boroughs of average 10 000 people. There seem to be little point in ...
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Why don't third parties in the United States advocate for Approval/Range Voting?
I've been thinking a lot about governance systems and how a certain governance structure may systemically reinforce certain behaviors.
Specifically, it seems experimentally impossible for third ...
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Is arresting an opposition leader right before elections can be considered pre-poll rigging? [closed]
Opposition leader is arrested a week prior to elections in Pakistan. Can that be considered as pre poll rigging?
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Is first-past-the-post (plurality voting) neither an ordinal nor a cardinal method?
Wikipedia says:
Cardinal methods (based on cardinal utility) and ordinal methods (based on ordinal preferences, also called ranked voting) are two main categories of modern voting systems, along ...
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Is there a voting system to elect multiple candidates and ensure diversity within those elected?
Let's say I have a number of places that I need to fill with elected candidates.
I would like people to be able to vote for the candidates using a system that does its best to end up with a diverse ...
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What is the term for the polisci problem of having to vote for a single individual holding many beliefs?
What's the term for the problem where voters have to pick a single person to vote for, but they may support different candidates on different issues?
For example, maybe you like the Democrats ...
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Why is proportional representation a nonpartisan issue in the US?
In Western Europe for example, many legislatures have a party-list system and are structured with proportionality, but in the US supporters for a change of system are almost entirely nonpartisan. The ...
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Is Zelig an Arrovian dictator?
This question is a follow-up to this one, and particular serves to clarify a potential error in one of the presented references.
The Context
When elaborating Arrow’s non-dictatorship criterion, the ...
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Why isn't approval voting used more often in elections?
Approval voting is a single-winner electoral system where each voter may select ("approve") any number of candidates. The winner is the most-approved candidate.
On paper, approval voting seems like ...
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How do elections for multi-member wards work in England?
In English local elections, some wards have multiple members. For example, see the Wokingham Borough Council election, 2016 for Bulmershe and Whitegates.
Considering that English elections us a ...
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In Mixed-Member Proportional representation system what percentage of people vote for different party than MP's party?
In Mixed-Member Proportional representation system electors have two votes first for an MP and second for party. My question is there some figure of how many people vote for party in second vote ...
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How can voter ID laws in U.S. hurt minorities from voting? [duplicate]
A lot of studies have found out that compulsory registration for voter ID card primarily hurts minorities like African Americans and so most Republican states are deploying it.
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What measures can be taken, so that no political party takes undue advantage of rivalry of other 2 parties?
Suppose that in a country, there are 3 parties, out of which 2 are opposition and 1 ruling.
If people are not really happy with the ruling party and want to replace it, then they have the option to ...
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How do abstentions affect Majority Judgment voting?
In the examples of Majority Judgment on Wikipedia et al, every voter submits a rating of every candidate, conveniently making the vote bars equal width. What happens when that doesn't happen?
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Election system where votes dictate the power of the representative [duplicate]
Has there ever been a system where the votes received were the measure of power each winning candidate had in the legislature? I have found this under the name Direct Representation and Interactive ...
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What is the name of the electoral system that I describe? (Derived from FPTP, but proportionally representative)
Here is an electoral system that I came up with. It's derived from First-past-the-post, and still only elects one candidate per riding, but the process is modified for proportional representation. ...
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Do any countries vote for representatives non-geographically?
In the United States, we vote for the president representing our country, two senators representing our state, a US representative from our district, and various state and local representatives based ...
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How do political parties which identify with castes, languages or religions comply with India's RPA Act, 1951?
The Representation of People Act, 1951, of the Parliament of India states,
Section 123(3) of the Representation of the People Act, defines a
corrupt electoral practice as follows:
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Statistics of Instant Runoff Voting
Has anyone published statistics on how many recounts (i.e. runoffs) are necessary for resolving an instant runoff election, versus the number of candidates?
Data from real life would be good, but ...
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What can UK citizens do to replace first past the post with a proportional representation voting system? [closed]
First past the post (FPP) is the voting system that is used in the United Kingdom to elect representatives to its lower house, the House of Commons. Due to FPP's winner-takes-all setup, voters have ...
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Tie Breaking in Final Round of Ranked Choice Vote
Been thinking about RCV a lot because Virginia (where I live) may pass a bill to use it in state elections. Also been thinking about ties in elections because one of the delegate districts here is ...
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How does ethnic voting in Bosnia&Herzegovina work?
Bosnia & Herzegovina is made up of 3 main ethnicities, Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs, with a very small number of people not part of any those. They elect 3 presidents for each of the 3 ethnicities, ...
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What is the biggest flaw with this Democratic Taxation system? [closed]
Imagine a country where up to 50% of the tax dollars are allocated by the people instead of congress/government. Once a year, the citizens file a vote with their tax return, which allocates ...
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Is there a name for a voting system that is based on issues rather than people?
I'm not super familiar with the intricacies of the various voting systems, so forgive me if I'm way off in an assumption I have. However, in all election formats I know of, voters are expected to ...
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Does open-list proportional representation have an advantage over single transferable vote (STV)?
I'm a Canadian struggling to understand what voting system would be the best for my country as an alternative to first-past-the-post. STV appears to be better than proportional representation because ...
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How to recount ballots with minimal influence of outliers?
I've noticed some unusual voting on an online poll I'm running for work (Ranked choice). It's nothing serious, however as the results are open to everyone (as a matter of transparency). I have had ...
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Why is the new German parliament 12 % bigger?
Before the
German federal election in September 2017,
the parliament (Bundestag) had 631 members; now it has 709 .
How did this come about?
Does it matter, or is it a second-order effect?
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Why do proportional representation voting systems not evolve to first past the post systems?
The first past the post voting system tends to favour a two-party system.
Suppose an election is held using a proportional representation voting system. Then suppose that the two largest parties, ...
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In Bundestag election, can a party abuse the system by endorsing independents in constituency (first vote) races?
In its federal election, Germany uses mixed-member proportional representation, where a voter makes two votes: one picks a particular candidate in local constituency, second for a party. In short, a ...
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Has this election system been used before?
I am thinking about this particular form of proportional representation for a parliamentary system and I am wondering if it has been used before. This is how it works.
Half the seats in Parliament ...
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How would the Single Transferable Vote be implemented in the United States? (House and Senate)
I understand how the ranked vote can be used to fill a presidential position, and how that can be implemented in the US.
At a high level could the Single Transferable Vote be applied to the House and ...
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Effect of Fair Representation Act
The Fair Representation Act was recently introduced by House Member Don Bayer. The main changes that I've read about were that it would introduce instant-runoff style ranked choice voting and that it ...
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Does representativeness in a political system come at the cost of inherent complexity?
Alright, this is something I've thought about for a while with respect to comparisons between the German and British or Australian and Estonian electoral systems. Some of these are fairly simple to ...
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How do Panachage and removal work in Proportional Representation
I'm interested in the effects of the different voting system over the result of an election.
In Proportional Representation, some countries allow voter to remove the name of a candidate from a list ...
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Why haven't national elections in some countries devolved into a two-party system despite having an FPTP voting system? [duplicate]
If the First Past the Post voting system is the main culprit behind the formation of two-party systems, why haven't we seen such an outcome in many nations like the U.K and Canada that still use FPTP?
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Does Arrow's Theorem invalidate an alternate voting system?
Imagine this voting algorithm: Each voter ranks their choices. Then, the 1st choice votes are tallied, and the one with the lowest score removed from the running. Those who have the removed contender ...
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