POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Wield, Anti-Abortion Movements, Beer In Poland
20 Dec 2016
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Single member constituency: only one person elected from each area. Multi member constituency: more than one person elected from the same area, used in japan. P. e. i used to have multi member constituency. The number of seats in the legislature should more or less match the percentage of the votes received: say there"s 100 seats and a party got 23% of the vote then they should get roughly. Vote for a party instead of a specific individual (in its most basic form: there is a list of who gets to be an mp. Say you get 23 seats then the first 23 names get to be members of parliament. Closed list: you as a voter have no control of whose name is on the list and what order they are in. The leader of the party decides these things. Must have at least 5% of the vote to get any seats: 2% is the lowest electoral threshold- this is in mexico.
