Often supporters JOW Facilities cites the example of the UK as a country in which this solution is excellent. It just so happens that in the last year. Week there were held parliamentary elections, where each of the 650 representatives of the House of Commons is chosen precisely in these districts in a system known as first-past-the-post (with English. First Past the Post). The candidate who, in the district gets the most votes receives from the district mandate; the rest of the contenders lost. In other words: the winner takes all.
British system has but one very serious drawback: it is drakońsko unrepresentative, which means that a huge number of votes cast is wasted. For example, although the ultra-conservative UK Independence Party ( UKIP ) won 12.6 per cent. votes and was the third most often chosen political option in the new House of Commons introduced only one representative.
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Let’s go further: if you combine the votes for UKIP of votes cast for the Greens, this time we get a little more than 5 million votes, or more than half of what the Labour Party won. Despite this, UKIP and the Greens have together 2 MPs, and Labour – 232.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) won 1.4 million votes and now have 56 MPs in Westminster and Liberal Democrats, who have gathered a million votes more, bring to parliament 48 representatives less. In turn, the two parties together have roughly the same number of votes as UKIP, which gives them more than 60 seats in the House of Commons, although UKIP has only one.
So the argument is false, which put forward the election Paul Kukiz – the JOW s allow the airing of policy and break the monopoly of mainstream parties. On the contrary – it is the electoral system most contributed to the fact that after the war the authorities UK exchange the two largest parties, and the formation of a coalition cabinet is seen as a deviation from the norm. As indeed is the case with Congress USA , the Canadian House of Commons and the House of the People in India. Besides, the examples do not need to search for the English Channel – just look at the Polish Senate.
An example of British shows so clearly that more important than the number of seats per division is a way of selecting winners in these districts. That was the idea behind the initiators of the referendum of 2011., When the British vote on replacing the system of first-past-the-post preferential ordination, namely the so-called method. alternative voting (68 per cent. voters then against this solution with a turnout of 42.2 per cent.).
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This method works as follows. Voters instead to put to the name of the selected candidates cross, put the number. With the candidate that suits me the most, I put the number “1″. With this, in which zagłosowałbym second, put “2″ and so on. During the counting of votes is checked for how many voters the candidates were first choice, in other words, how many got ones. If you and lick manage to collect more than half, automatically wins the election.
If it does not, eliminating the candidate who received the least ones, and then cast on it voices partitioned between the rest of the candidates according to this, to whom were the choice number 2, 3 etc. The process ends when when one of the candidates manage to get half the votes in her district.
The system has been used for many years in the Australian in elections to the 150-seat House of Representatives, or the lower body of the Australian parliament. Unfortunately, in its framework also difficult to penetrate smaller parties; although Palmer’s Unity Party and the Greens won the federal election in 2013. 1.8 million votes (approx. 14 per cent. of votes), which is almost half of what the Australian Labor Party, this time won two seats, while Labour – 55 seats .
A simpler method than the alternative voting method is the method of supplementary vote where voters mark only their first and second choice (in this way is chosen, among others, the mayor of London). A variant of this method is also a method Bordy, where voters’ preferences are translated into points and after their summing emerges the winner (thus selected parliament on Nauru).
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