Proportionate System

[dimpy.handa]

Proportional Representation is fairer. First past the post often results in a party without majority support being able to dominate parliament, as happened in the UK in the 1980s.
Do you agree that a more proportionate system of voting be used to elect political representatives.

 

[dimpy.handa]

Proportional representation voting (PR) is the main rival to plurality-majority voting. Among advanced western democracies it has become the predominant voting system. For instance, in Western Europe, 21 of 28 countries use proportional representation, including Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

The basic approach of proportional representation is simple: legislators are elected in multimember districts instead of single-member districts, and the number of seats that a party wins in an election is proportional to the amount of its support among voters. So if you have a 10-member district and the Republicans win 50% of the vote, they receive five of the ten seats. If the Democrats win 30% of the vote, they get three seats; and if a third party gets 20% of the vote, they win two seats. Electoral system designers have devised several ways to achieve these proportional results, and so there are three basic kinds of PR described below: party list, mixed-member, and single-transferable vote (also called choice voting).

 

[gala01]

YEAH, THE PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE MORE CLEARLY SET. HOWEVER. GOVT IS QUTIE PROPERLY TAKING UP THE STEPS. BUT STILL A LOT MORE TO GO.

 

[swatiraohnlu]

Proportional system has its advantages and it has been seen that countries implementing PR have a more transparent election system.

 

[satyamsaxena0786]

We in the United States are very used to our single-member district, winner-take-all style of elections. We've all grown up with a system where we elect members of our legislatures one at a time in small districts, with the winner being the candidate with the most votes. This system seems so "natural" that proportional representation (PR) elections may at first appear a bit strange to us. Adding to the potential confusion is the fact that there are several different kinds of PR systems in use around the world. But in reality, the principles underlying proportional representation systems are very straightforward and all of the systems are easy to use.
The Basic Principles of PR

The basic principles underlying proportional representation elections are that all voters deserve representation and that all political groups in society deserve to be represented in our legislatures in proportion to their strength in the electorate. In other words, everyone should have the right to fair representation.

 

[dimpy.handa]

The main elements of the operation of proportional voting are as follows:

voters are required to either number all the candidates on the ballot paper in order of preference, or to place the number "1" in the box "above the line". Any vote cast above the line is deemed to be a fully-preferential vote in accordance with party tickets lodged with the Electoral Commission.
because a Senate election of more than one candidate means that the political parties nominate groups of candidates, known as "lists" or "tickets", it is not unusual for a Senate ballot paper to contain anywhere between 30 and 70 candidates. Hence, the informal vote in Senate elections has been historically quite high.
In 1984, the system of Group Voting Tickets was introduced, whereby voters can cast a vote for a group of candidates by simply placing a "1" in the box "above the line". The order of preferences is in accordance with a ticket registered by the respective parties or groups with the Australian Electoral Commission.
the counting of first preference votes takes place first. Candidates who receive a quota, or more, of these first preference votes are elected immediately.