Electoral Systems Mindamap!
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- Electoral Systems
- FPTP
- Used in: House of Commons and Scottish and English local government
- Single member system
- One person, one vote
- Constituencies are of equal size
- Electoral Comissions
- Boundaries Commission for Scotland and Wales
- Each constituency has one returning candidate (winner takes all)
- Winner takes plurality of votes
- AMS
- 2 votes - 1 for a candidate in a constituency and 2 for a party on a party list
- Used in Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly
- Mixed system
- constituency votes
- party list votes
- proportion of seats done by constituencies
- Wales = 66%
- England = 56%
- top- up with votes from a "closed" party list
- Single Transferable Vote
- multi-member constituency
- Northern Ireland - 18 constituencies each returning 6 representatives.
- A winning candidate must reach the quota of votes
- Quote figured out by the Droop Formula
- totally number of votes cast / (number of seats to be filled +1) +1
- If party gets quota from first preference votes they will be given extra second preference votes
- Used in NI for European Parliament & in England and Scotland local governments
- Party is able to put as many candidates up
- Electors vote in preference 1, 2, 3
- if prIf this process leaves seats unfilled the smallest candidate drops out and second preference vote is redistributed
- multi-member constituency
- Regional Party List
- Used in European Parliament
- Electors vote for parties not candidates
- There are a number of large constituencies
- UK divided into 12 - with 3-10 representatives
- Political parties compile a list of candidates in preference
- parties allocate seats directly proportional to votes got
- Fill seats with party list candidates
- SV/AV
- single member system
- AV: electors vote preferentially
- SV: 2 votes one for first preference and two for supplementary preference
- Winning candidate must recieve 50% of votes
- If no one gets 50%
- AV- eliminate bottom candidate and redistribute votes
- SV: keep top 2 and redistribute all the supplementary votes
- FPTP
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