Interested Observer
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Wilf Day wrote:

Interested Observer wrote:

My personal favorite is the Preferential ballot/MMP system. You state your order of preference for your local candidate, and select a party you most prefer. 

Hungary has a system which is similar to MMP, and they elect the local MP by preferential ballot. I don't know of any actual MMP jurisdiction which does this, but we might have had the first: when the BC Citizens' Assembly designed their excellent MMP system, that was a feature of it. They then voted between the two systems they had designed, and decided that BC-STV was the better fit with BC's geography and political culture.

 Good to know. Thanks for that Wilf Day. I wasn't sure whether a country had actually implemented something similar or not.

Brian Topp: Our friends on the blue team seem to mostly focus on sticks, and not so much on carrots. ;)


Could FPTP and PR be made compatible? By: Machjo (27 replies) February 5, 2009 - 9:54pm