RE: 2015 UK General Election
May 7, 2015 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2015 at 3:27 pm by Tiberius.)
(May 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: I was a supporter of AV top up over PR. Falconer's report back in the early naugties really got me on board with it and I think it would have been good.
Oh well, that ship has sailed for now.
I don't like people comparing AV and PR as if one is better than the other; both are good in certain circumstances. AV is good if you want to select one overall winner out of 2 or more candidates. PR is good if you want to select multiple winners based on the proportion of votes each party gets (e.g. party A got 80% of the vote, whilst party B got 20%, so party A selects 4 people as winners, whilst party B selects 1).
Since the UK parliament has a fixed number of seats based on constituencies, and each party only puts forward a maximum of 1 candidate per constituency, PR doesn't make any sense. If that changed, and UK parliament was made up of a flexible number of seats, distributed amongst constituencies to match their population, then PR would work fine.
Anyway, now for something lighter and funnier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THy2031TA0o
