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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The basic idea of a PR election would be you vote for a party instead of a candidate and each part submits a list of candidates in priority queue. If you have a legislature with 100 seats and party A wins 40% of the popular vote then they get 40 seats and the first 40 candidates in the priority list are sworn in. Repeat.
But there are many many many different models of that basic premise..
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So you kinda lose direct representation, the idea that person X will represent me well so I'll vote for them.. or person Y is crazy so I'll vote for someone else even though person Y is on the party I like...
It does dispense with the polite fiction of the direct representation though, people mostly vote for the party anyway, and votes are pretty much along party lines.
Interesting.