AMS

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AMS

Advantages

  • Equal value of votes
  • A fair choice of votes
  • Fairer on the parties that do not have enough support in a single FPTP constituency.
  • Allows voters to express a vote for a candidate without worrying about going against their party
  • Every voter has at least one effective vote

Disadvantages

  • Bad Proportionality
  • Creates a two-class system of representatives. Some with constituencies and some without.
  • Poor Representation
  • Coalitions more likely
  • Can be complicated for voters

Evaluation

  AMS is neither a majoritarian or proportional electoral system, it is a hybrid of the two.Voters mark an X next to the candidate they want to represent them in their constituency, and proportional representation, where voters select from a list of candidates for each party who represent a larger regional constituency.Under AMS, each voter gets a vote for the candidate and the party. 
   Scotland uses the AMS, the introduction of it brought a coalition government with Labour and LibDem. Other places that use the Additional Member System include: The Welsh Assembly, The Greater London Assembly, The German Bundestag and The New Zealand House of Representatives. The welt=

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