GVPT 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Party System
8 Oct 2018
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Course notes: midterm on wednesday, october 17th, remember: extra credit opportunity. Majority smd systems: operate like plurality smd systems, but the candidate must get a majority of the vote. If only a plurality wins, it goes into a runoff election (a second election between the top two candidates: alternative or rank-choice voting. If there is no majority winner, the last candidate is eliminated, and second-place votes are counted for these ballots; this continues until one has a majority. The nigerian example: nigeria is a presidential democracy (4-year terms) with concurrent legislative elections, the president must win most of the national vote plus one-quarter of the vote in two-thirds of the states. Pr multimember systems: multiple candidates are elected per district, the party with the highest percentage of votes gets the most seats, other parties get seats that mirror the percent of their share of the vote.
