Draft Picks for Districts 3 & 5

[JohnFKennedy]

I read about it in Time Magazine.  They called it Instant Runoff Voting.

Yes IRV can be another name for it. Actually the biggest example of a country using this method is Australia where they have been using it in Elections since the 1920s I think.

I am not sure but I believe the name for it is Alternative Voting System, we are studying it in politics.

[JohnFKennedy]

There's actually a proposition here in BC to enact this kind of voting for provincial elections; as far as I could tell, it's exactly as we do it, but they call it the "Single Transferable Vote method" or something like that.

STV is different from what we have and is a form of PR.

[JohnFKennedy]

There's actually a proposition here in BC to enact this kind of voting for provincial elections; as far as I could tell, it's exactly as we do it, but they call it the "Single Transferable Vote method" or something like that.

STV is different from what we have and is a form of PR.

Oh, how does it work?  Maybe I didn't read the proposition carefully regarding what it does.

It is used in multi-member constituencies.

It requires that all those elected receive a majority of the vote in the constituency.

The "Droop Quota" is used to determine the number of votes necessary:

Q = (total votes cast/number of seats + 1) +1

E.g.

In a 5 member constituency with 360,000 electors, the required number of votes is 60,001.

In the first phase of the count anybody with 60,001 votes or more is elected (Usually at least one candidate is elected here) The votes that were for them are now transferred to their second preferences which can lead to the election of another candidate. From here in they eliminate from the bottom upwards until all the vacancies are filled.

[JohnFKennedy]

There's actually a proposition here in BC to enact this kind of voting for provincial elections; as far as I could tell, it's exactly as we do it, but they call it the "Single Transferable Vote method" or something like that.

STV is different from what we have and is a form of PR.

Oh, how does it work?  Maybe I didn't read the proposition carefully regarding what it does.

It is used in multi-member constituencies.

It requires that all those elected receive a majority of the vote in the constituency.

The "Droop Quota" is used to determine the number of votes necessary:

Q = (total votes cast/number of seats + 1) +1

E.g.

In a 5 member constituency with 360,000 electors, the required number of votes is 60,001.

In the first phase of the count anybody with 60,001 votes or more is elected (Usually at least one candidate is elected here) The votes that were for them are now transferred to their second preferences which can lead to the election of another candidate. From here in they eliminate from the bottom upwards until all the vacancies are filled.

According to Wikipedia, it can be used in either a proportional representation setup or a single-seat election setup, and it's called "instant-runoff voting" (what Atlasia has) when it's applied to single-seat elections, which are what we have in BC.

Ah, ok, the type I mentioned is used in Ireland and from what I have read Atlasia uses Alternative Voting System which is what Australia has.