Voting systems and their advantages/disadvantages
SV +
1. Majority governments. 2. Maintains constituency links. 3.Avoids weak preferances.
List +
1. Strong connection of votes to seats gained. 2. Fairer to smalled parties. 3. Good at representing women and minoritys.
STV +
1.Good connection between votes and seats. 2.Fairer to smaller parties. 3.Allows the voter to choose candidates. 4.Good at representing women and minority groups.
(AMS) +
1.It produces faily proportional results. 2.Fairer to small parties. 3.Retains some mp-consituency link. 4.Good at representing women and minority groups.
STV -
1.More complex system that takes longer to achieve result. 2.Makes coalitions more likely. 3.There is no close link between the MP and their constiuency.
List -
1.Places power into the parties hands who can place a troublesome MP to the bottom of the list. 2.Denies the voters a choise of candidates. 3.They make coalitions more likely. 4.There is no link between MP's and coaltions.
(AMS) -
1.Top-up members may be seen as second-class Representatives. 2.It is not as proportionalas PR systems such as party lists and STV. 3.It makes coalitions more likely.
SV -
1.not completely proportional 2. Rewards parties that have concentrated areas of support.
Additional Member System (AMS)
Hybrid system. Made up of first past the post and party-list elements, the voter has two votes the parties, and one for a candidate.
Supplementary vote
Non-proportional. If no majority is gained counts a previous second vote to decide the top two candidates.
Single Transferable Vote (STV)
Proportional. A preferential candidate-centered PR electoral system used in multimember districts. Candidates who surpass a specified quota of first-preference votes are immediately elected. In successive counts, votes from eliminated candidates and surplus votes from elected candidates are reallocated to the remaining candidates until all the seats are filled.
Closed list system
Proportional. The voter picks only a party, propotion depends on constituancy size.
