Comments | beingjdc: More geeking about PR

beingjdc

More geeking about PR

May 15, 2010 14:48

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beingjdc May 15 2010, 18:49:15 UTC

The regions issue is really just a useful proxy for the shift in political power between richer and poorer areas. That political logic applies in much the same way under AMS and in large-constituency STV.

hsenag May 15 2010, 18:28:55 UTC

How do you allocate MPs to regions under "pure PR"?

beingjdc May 15 2010, 18:52:55 UTC

You divide the number of people who voted in the region by the number who voted overall, and multiply the result by the number of MPs.

hsenag May 15 2010, 19:06:49 UTC

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about turnout.

Though surely NI would have loads of MPs then? :-)

beingjdc May 15 2010, 19:19:17 UTC

Turnout is key. At the moment, politics is skewed to the concerns of marginal constituencies. Lots of people think that's a problem - I'm less worried, because they're close to being 'average' places, that's why they're marginal ( ... )

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