POL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Open List, George Tsebelis, Dilma Rousseff
18 Jan 2017
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Impact on representation (differs across the 2 major types of electoral system) U. s. elections to the house of rep. United kingdom elections to the house of commons. Make it hard to gain substantial seats in the legislature. Voters choose among candidates; they do not vote directly for a political party. First past the post or winner take all ; the winner is the candidate that gets a plurality (the most, but not the majority) of the vote. United states house of representatives, britain house of commons. Relatively easy for parties to gain seats. Voters vote for party lists (other name), not candidates. 2+ reps. are elected per district (multi-member districts) Parties win seats in the legislature based on the proportion of votes they receive in the election (tries to make # of votes=# of seats) If one candidate gets a majority of votes, he/she wins. If not, there will be a run-off between candidates that obtain.
