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So what would you move to? Roland00 Send a noteboard - 07/05/2010 09:53:51 AM
So what would you move to? A system where you wouldn't have districts but you vote for the party?

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Or would you have a system with instant run off voting? For the people who don't know how instant run off voting works here is how.

You list your first choice, second choice, third choice, etc when you vote.
Assume we have an election where the total precinct has these results as their first choice.
Conservative 40%
Lib Dem 35%
Labour 25%

Since Conservative doesn't have a 50% share, than the people who voted for the least popular party would have their party drop out. In this case Labour. Since the Labour votes were drop out the people who voted for Labour would then have their second choice decide the election. If the second choice for the Labour voters were 50% Conservative and 50% Tory than that 25% would be split 12.5% and 12.5% and now the totals would be Conservative 52.5% and Lib Dem 47.5%, thus the Conservatives would win. But if the Labour voters had for their second choice 35% Conservative and 65% Lib Dem, than the 25% would be split 8.75% Conservative and 16.25% Lib Dem making the final totals 51.25% Lib Dem and 48.75% Conservative.

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Or some combination of the two. You have two votes and one vote determines your precinct/district representative and another vote that determines your party representative? If this is your system would you have one house or two?

Edit: corrected some grammar
This message last edited by Roland00 on 07/05/2010 at 09:57:26 AM
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Lib Dems: Up 1% of the vote, down 10% of the seats. - 07/05/2010 09:29:03 AM 1657 Views
Re: Lib Dems: Up 1% of the vote, down 10% of the seats. - 07/05/2010 09:45:23 AM 1102 Views
So what would you move to? - 07/05/2010 09:53:51 AM 937 Views
Re: So what would you move to? - 07/05/2010 02:55:32 PM 1041 Views
God I hate the British system - 07/05/2010 10:24:35 AM 1073 Views
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Are you counting the Speaker? *NM* - 07/05/2010 01:59:37 PM 601 Views
Indeed - 07/05/2010 02:22:37 PM 1103 Views
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They are? Where? - 07/05/2010 02:38:01 PM 1147 Views
On the lovely BBC. Paxman, Robinson, Dimbleby et al. - 07/05/2010 02:52:01 PM 1033 Views
Ah, we have it on but with the sound turned down - the subtitlers must be skipping that phrase - 07/05/2010 03:13:57 PM 981 Views
The thing with PR is, the current vote results are a horrid predictor for PR vote results. - 07/05/2010 03:45:58 PM 1027 Views
That is true - 07/05/2010 03:53:51 PM 1038 Views
Re: That is true - 07/05/2010 03:54:51 PM 1057 Views
I'm sure it would be a setup for new elections in a few months if they did. *NM* - 07/05/2010 02:40:49 PM 559 Views
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What is the general consensus on who would win or lose from new elections? - 07/05/2010 02:57:04 PM 1163 Views
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King William IV indeed. - 07/05/2010 03:37:18 PM 1116 Views
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Re: Not being talked about yet - I'd guess whoever is PM will lose though - 07/05/2010 04:04:03 PM 1045 Views
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Re: I suspect a great deal of the problem is George Osborn - 07/05/2010 04:28:45 PM 1006 Views
Re: I suspect a great deal of the problem is George Osborn - 07/05/2010 04:34:41 PM 989 Views
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Cameron might be in trouble anyway. - 07/05/2010 06:25:14 PM 1145 Views
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Possibly. - 07/05/2010 02:53:28 PM 1168 Views
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that does sound strange - 07/05/2010 10:57:10 AM 984 Views
The breakdown is pretty wack - 07/05/2010 11:07:20 AM 996 Views
Tell me about it. - 07/05/2010 11:14:44 AM 1016 Views
I liked that as well - 07/05/2010 11:46:42 AM 1073 Views
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- 07/05/2010 01:44:03 PM 973 Views
Re: The breakdown is pretty wack - 07/05/2010 03:23:32 PM 1019 Views
Same here - 07/05/2010 03:47:51 PM 968 Views
Re: Same here - 07/05/2010 03:56:46 PM 1121 Views
A simple change is all - 07/05/2010 01:16:16 PM 1060 Views
That's not a simple change. THIS is a simple change: - 07/05/2010 01:59:09 PM 1045 Views
Not that simple - 07/05/2010 02:45:00 PM 1000 Views
Because my school was a polling station we used to get the day off every polling day - 07/05/2010 02:51:18 PM 1159 Views
Show off - 07/05/2010 02:53:16 PM 1001 Views
Re: Not that simple - 07/05/2010 03:04:57 PM 1153 Views
Re: Not that simple - 07/05/2010 03:14:46 PM 1150 Views
Re: Not that simple - 07/05/2010 03:20:55 PM 846 Views
PR is hardly too difficult to implement and is much more democratic - 07/05/2010 02:48:01 PM 1025 Views
I hate the list system. - 07/05/2010 02:55:39 PM 1066 Views
There are many different versions - 07/05/2010 03:10:38 PM 986 Views
It's that bad i registered to moan. - 07/05/2010 02:53:37 PM 1072 Views
Conservatives win and the stock market plummets. j/k - 07/05/2010 03:40:11 PM 952 Views
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I like John Major - 07/05/2010 04:01:03 PM 1002 Views
There's only one the LibDems will be interested in though. - 07/05/2010 06:30:55 PM 1108 Views
But - 07/05/2010 08:21:11 PM 1046 Views
Isn't that the very definition of a coalition? - 07/05/2010 08:16:05 PM 1044 Views
OK here is the map of England by constituency, blue Tory, red NUlab - 07/05/2010 05:00:20 PM 1009 Views
So I'm just one of those upstart colonists....explain to me what is going on.... - 07/05/2010 05:26:59 PM 992 Views
Basically... - 07/05/2010 06:43:10 PM 1026 Views
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I thought they weren't allowed to do that if Brown isn't Prime Minister? - 08/05/2010 04:52:39 PM 1070 Views
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They certainly can. - 09/05/2010 04:37:46 PM 1094 Views
God, our system is fucked up *NM* - 07/05/2010 06:25:04 PM 587 Views
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Hmmm - 13/05/2010 12:08:04 PM 1364 Views
Completely uncalled for! - 13/05/2010 01:12:05 PM 1175 Views
How was he supposed to know that at the time he made the post? - 13/05/2010 09:52:24 PM 1459 Views
Re: How was he supposed to know that at the time he made the post? - 13/05/2010 10:59:35 PM 1058 Views
Yes I jumped the gun on the 12 - 14/05/2010 09:53:49 AM 1046 Views
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