From what I know if you get 16% of the vote you get 16% of the seats, but how does the party choose which person gets to be in parliament? Sorry wrong sub probably I don’t know where to ask
From what I know if you get 16% of the vote you get 16% of the seats, but how does the party choose which person gets to be in parliament? Sorry wrong sub probably I don’t know where to ask
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Yes, 16% gives 16%. Depending on the country you might also be allowed to rank/vote for a specific candidate on the parties list. Which will follow the order of peoples ranking or who has the most candidate votes on the list on determining which candidates then actually get a seat.
Depends on the area.
In Spain, there are candidates lists, closed lists, you just grab the list (there’s a bajillion quantity in the voting building). When results are done, each lists gest a certaing quantity of seat and those are asigned in other to the people inside the list that got that result,
Here in Spain, there are 350 seats in the lower chamber (Congress) which are apportioned per province, as the province is the electoral circumscription: each province gets a minimum of 2 representatives, and the rest are distributed proportionally to population.
My province, Coruña, has got 8 representatives. With the electoral results, the 8 seats are distributed among the political parties using the D’Hondt method, which avoids having to round up or round down.
In the elections, we vote for a closed list of candidates, which is to say we pick one ballot with the name of the party we prefer, which contains the list of candidates in order. So, if the party you voted for gets three of the seats, then the top three names of that list become reps.
How does one end on a party’s list, and on its higher section? Basically, backstabbing, conspiring, and bootlicking within the party.
CGP Grey has bunch of pretty good videos about voting systems. Check out e.g. this one
Germany has closed lists on federal parliament elections: the party defines the order of candidates on the party list.
Cyprus has open lists in parliamentary elections: the voter can influence the order of the party list they are voting for by boosting specific candidates inside that list. The party has the option to select one candidate to be the list leader, and that candidate gets the first spot regardless of the preference votes Most but not all parties use this option.
Depends on the country probably.
At least in the Netherlands a party makes a numbered lists of candidates. The party leader is at spot number 1, then you have number 2, number 3, number 4, all the way down the list. How many candidates a party has depends on the type of elections (there’s generally more seats up for grabs in national elections than local elections, so lists for national elections are longer) and on the party itself. The largest parties will usually have the largest number of candidates.
How the order on the list is decided depends on the party. Usually people who are active in the party get put into the top spots likely to actually be elected, and the rest of the list is often filled up with people from local politics and the occasional well known person way at the bottom who’s just there to attract some extra voters.
For election results they divide the total number of votes cast in an election (say for example, 8 million) by the number of seats to be divided (150 for parliamentary elections). So 8m/150=53,333 votes will equal one seat.
Let’s say party A has 4 million votes, party B has 2.5 million votes, and party C has 1.5 million votes.
4m/53,333=75
2.5m/53,333=46.88
1.5m/53,333=28.13
Party A will get 75 seats, with people on spots 1-75 on the list getting seats in parliament.
Party B will get 46 seats, with people on spots 1-46 getting seats in parliament.
Party C will get 28 seats, with people on spots 1-28 getting seats in parliament.
That’s 149 seats in total, and there’s then some calculations as to who gets the remaining seats based on the total number of remaining votes. In this case party B has the most “left over” votes so they’ll get the remaining seat which will go to the person who was number 47 on the list.
Of course this is just a simplified example, since in actual elections there’s usually at least two dozen of not more parties vying for seats (for national elections anyway, for local elections usually still at least a dozen) so you’ll have a lot more leftover seats as well as parties who got votes but no seats. And there’s also preferential votes where people lower down the list can still get a seat if they got a certain % of individual votes.
In Turkey, basically if a province will have a total of let’s say 10 MPs, each party also proposes 10 MPs in an ordered list. If they manage to get 1 seat for that province, only the first candidate of that party list gets elected.
You can’t really give exact proportional seats in this case because let’s say some party get 16%, and if the province has 10 MPs, that party would get 1.6 seats which is impossible and cannot be rounded up without messing with other parties. So, the D’Hondt system is used which is basically a simple algorithm which is proportional enough to work out.
It depends on the system. In some cases you can vote for the party/coalition AND write in a candidate’s name belonging to that party. Thus, if the party you voted gets 100 seats, the 100 candidates with most preferences get into the legislature. Example
Or you may have a system where the population does not make such a list, but the parties do, listing which people they would rather have into parliament and with which order. Example
Or you can have a system where both methods coexist.
Depends on the country, Germany has two lists: one where you vote only for a party, and it picks its representatives, and one for people directly; if the latter votes cause an imbalance compared to the results of the first, additional seats are added to the house (so technically, the Bundestag doesn’t have a set number of reps)
For the Polish Sejm, the nation-wide results are only important when it comes to the 5%/8% threshold; each district then grants seats depending on how many votes a party got, and then which of their candidates got best results. It more or less evens out, but outliers happen (2015 was horrid because 1/6 of votes went to the bin)