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Originally Posted by photon
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.
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And there's also a popular amendment of PR which is mixed member proportionality which tries to bring in local representation.
Basically, voters have two votes in this system. They vote for the national party which is used to calculate the proportionality described in the first system and then they vote for the candidate in their riding. Winning at the riding level is typically first past the post. After all of the riding candidates win they then superimpose the proportionality ontop and fill in the rest of the seats so that each party makes up the national proportional representation.
For example, in a 100 seat legislature voters voted for 50% party A, 30% party B, 20% party C. There are also 50 ridings where party A won 10, party B won 20 and party C won 20.
Party C will not get any more candidates because by their 20 riding wins they now have 20% of the legislature. Party B will get an additional 10 members in the legislature based on the party priority queue and Part A will get an additional 40 members based on their priority list.
This is a popular voting system.