Should we make the voting system more proportional
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- Created on: 04-12-18 12:12
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- Should we make the voting system more proportional?
- Yes
- Effects on the party system
- Would produce a multi-party system which is more pluralist and representative
- Smaller parties would win more seats, larger parties would win less seats so there's more accurate representation of voters' opinions
- Effects on government formation
- A multi-party system would prevent any party from winning an overall majority in parliament - would stop government from being excessively powerful
- As a minority/coalition government democracy would be better served as a consensus would be seeked on every issue
- Effects on voters
- Voters' interests better served, more voter choice
- Every vote counts and has equal value
- Favour members from ethnic minorities and women
- Effects on the party system
- No
- Effects on the party system
- It could give an opening for extremist parties
- Could create a chaotic political system with too many competing parties
- Effects on government formation
- Could produce instability - governments frequently falling and having to be reformed
- Without parliamentary majority, governments lose decisiveness
- Effects on voters
- More difficult to understand
- Loss of MP + constituency link would be a blow to democracy
- Effects on the party system
- Yes
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