Flashcards
Electoral Systems
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1FPTPFirst Past the Post
-Current system
-Majoritarian
-Favours larger parties
-Tactical Voting
-Who ever has most wins
-Quick
-Normally produce 2 party system- easy to pass legislation - 2STVSingle Transferable Vote
-Rank by preference
-Have to get a quota of the vote
-Between 3-5 MPs in large constituencies
-More choice=more power
-MP have to contest all not just marginal
-Massive constituencies
-Donkey voting+long time to count - 3Double Ballot-Vote for candidate, all but top two eliminated, vote again
-Time consuming
-Disadvantages smaller parties
-Voter fatigue
-Less wasted votes
-High turnout at second round - 4AMSAdditional Members System
-Vote for a party and a candidate
-Votes for other member party given to candidate to top up number of seats won by each party
-Directly accountable representatives
-Confusing
-Accountable to leaders not electorate - 5Alternative Vote-Rank preference
-Need 50%
-Votes redistributed to second preference
-Represent majority of electorate
-Less safe seats/tactical voting
-Labour 2010 leadership election Ed/David
-Hung parliaments - 6Closed ListPROPORTIONAL
Closed- Chose candidate form list
-list drawn up by party
-More choice=more power
-Multiparty governments
-Bigger constituencies - 7Closed listChose Party
-Very simple
-14 out of top 20 nations in terms of representation use closed list
-list drawn up by party-stifle minority voices
-Impersonal- no link between candidate and area
-More choice and control over who is elected- increase representation of women
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- A-Level Government and Politics (Election and Voting) Flashcards on Electoral Systems, created by Magalie Plissonneau on 05/02/2015.
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