Dec 15th 2019, 11:54:17
preferential/ranked choice/single transferable vote
basically forces you to choose who you dont want to be elected in a 3+ way contest
but you quite often get really low primary vote parties winning elections, maybe 35% is the lowest it got in australia
if you want to have proportional representation you need to have larger electrorates with more seats, the only one im familiar with in the lower chamber is hare-clark in tasmania and ACT, sounds like ireland and malta are the only 2 at national level who do it, maybe theres a lot more in the second/upper chamber
one way to do it is have 2 chambers, one where you pick the single most popular candidate by some method for a small geographical region, then the other where you take a much bigger region, potentially the whole country and let in minority views
uk is weird with the house of lords though and i dont understand it, about 800 eligible with 400 normally showing up, and not even room for all of them
i dont know a lot about mixed member and added member, but maybe countries just give out virtual seats to make things 'fairer' to parties that get a lot less seats than votes in the main house
i recall something about minimum percentages to get the bonus seats in eu elections too