POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Instant-Runoff Voting, Electoral District
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Why does it matter: more countries are becoming democratic around the world, it"s about three times more, and elections are booming as well. Thursday, march-08-12: there are questions about how many votes did you get and the types of votes, and how many are needed for seats. As a result there are different electoral systems that indicate different values. Three dimensions: district magnitude-the number of seats in a geographic area, the number of politicians that will get elected in the area, electoral formula-mathematical formula to count votes. Dms do not have to be the same in every electoral system: determines relationship between voters and politicians, where the. Electoral formula: determines how votes are turned to seats. Thursday, march-08-12: it specifies mathematical rules to dictate how votes are turned to seats, identifies who wins, there are dozens but they are grouped by plurality, majority and proportional representation.
