| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How can we finally ditch FPTP voting system - who would do it? | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 01/06/15 15:39:00 |
| "I think the Single Transferable Vote in multi-member constituencies is favourite. It retains the MP's link with the locality and is reasonably proportional." It retains the MP's link with the locality, but in order to have multi-member constituencies, you have to make the locality much bigger. I think that is a serious disadvantage. My preference would be the Alternative Vote system, which is equivalent to STV in a single-member constituency. Indeed, when I used it in the 1960s, it was then known as STV. It may not be "proportional", but it does offer a reasonably simple way of achieving a concensus in electing an MP. Having endured the campaigns for the referendum in 2011, I'm not sure that anything more complicated than AV will ever gain acceptance with the public, though perhaps we can do without a referendum next time. |