Proportional Representation Voting
Comments discuss proportional representation, mixed-member proportional systems, and other electoral reforms as solutions to gerrymandering, two-party dominance, and underrepresentation in first-past-the-post systems.
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We could implement a proportional representation system, which would make sure that their voices are represented in a far way. If people vote 30/60/10 for parties A/B/C, 30/60/10% of candidates elected would be of that party. Now its more like 45/55/0 or some other random result, based on gerrymandering.
Are you familiar with Duverger's Law? The "system" doesn't require an overhaul, but how we vote, does.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Sounds like proportional representation working as intended?
Have a look at Mixed Member Proportional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_repr...
One of the better ways I’ve heard is multi-member districting, where you have a slightly larger district with multiple reps (maybe 3-5 representatives) where seats are partitioned proportionately for that district. Voters vote for a party, and seats are apportioned to each party in accordance with their share (with some rounding). This guarantees a result that is at least as proportional (I’d posit significantly more proportional) as the current representative system, and maintain the ‘theoretic
Do I miss something,but isn't the real solution for this to elect using proportional representation?
Would proportional representation help?
The abstract describes a system for achieving shoddy Proportional Representation through bipartisan (or multi-partisan) gerrymandering. If you want Proportional Representation, then just do that and don't try to gerrymander districts to achieve it. I think this country is too stuck on the notion of districts and needs to think outside the box and paint outside the lines (nyuks intended). I think we keep describing what we want as some sort of identity/ideology based representation and
Not a local, but... Proportional voting systems suffer from the problem that voting "power" is not proportional to representation.Consider a parliament with 100 members and 3 parties. Suppose the breakdown is: A has 49 members, B has 48 members, and C has 3 members. Guess what... A, B, and C all have equal voting power! Any two parties are enough to reach a majority of 51 votes, and any one party is not. Despite A having, in theory, over 16 times the representation of C, it does not have any
Proportional representation solves this problem.Each state has x districts drawn by an independent third party which must pass a certain threshold for compactness, and y seats not associated with a district.Via any mechanism you choose (preference, ranked choice, FPP with parties, whatever) votes are assigned. Any voter in one of the x districts that does not get representation from their local member has their vote flow to one of the y seats.The exact implementations have tradeoffs, bu