POLS 1400 Lecture 7: POLS 1400 - lecture 7 mohan
15 Feb 2017
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Candidates are ranked preferentially on the ballot. If no candidate wins 50% of the vote, the candidate with the lowest amount of votes is eliminated and their second-choice votes are redistributed. This process is repeated until one candidate has at least 50% of the vote. Used in france and australia: single transferable vote. Same as av, except there are multiple winners. This is due to the fact that ridings can have multiple representatives. For example, if there are three positions available in a riding and there are. 20,000 voters in that riding, each candidate would need to reach 5001 votes in order to gain a seat. This is referred to as the winning threshold. Each voter gets two votes; one to cast for a person in their riding using the. Fptp system, and another one to cast for that person"s preferred party, using the pr system. Combines the regional representation of fptp with the fairness of pr.
