GOVT1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Justin Trudeau, Instant-Runoff Voting, Copei

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government Relations
• Course: GOVT1107
• Professor: James Ivor Loxton

Document Summary

The rules used to elect legislatures and there are three important dimensions: 1. The way that votes get translated into seats and there are two major formulas: plurality ( rst past the post , proportional representation (pr) De nition of plurality = more votes than anyone else. De nition of majority = 50% + 1. In a plurality system, you win if you win the most amount of votes (even if you do not win a. In pr seats are allotted to different parties in proportion to their share of the vote. Rather than voting for a candidate you vote for a party and the party then draws up a party list. Presidentialism and parliamentarism can be combined with plurality and proportional representation in different ways: district magnitude. District magnitude = number of legislators chosen from an electoral district ( electorate" in australia). It does not refer to the physical size of the district.