Some experiments with multi-seat constituencies...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Have you tried using photobucket?

[afleitch]

Have you tried using photobucket?

Yeah, but it seems to get automatically resized. Ill find a way though

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Have you tried using photobucket?

Yeah, but it seems to get automatically resized. Ill find a way though

The thing that does the resizing is the forum. You could always post the image, and post the image url under it.

[afleitch]

Here's the best I could do



Putting Argyll in with the Highlands is straightforward, Moray was a harder one to decide on, it is pretty much Inverness' commuter territory, and has increasingly more in common with Inverness than Aberdeen.

[minionofmidas]

Differences with Hare-Niemeyer:
Tayside

SNP 68063 – 32.84% - 2 seats
LAB 60889 – 29.38% - 1 seat [-1]
CON 43331 – 20.91% - 1 seat
LIB 30102 – 14.52% - 1 seat [+1]
OTH 4863 – 2.35%

Highlands and Islands at 6

LIB 84367 – 38.71% - 2 seats [-1]
LAB 49190 – 22.57% - 2 seats [+1]
SNP 41755 – 19.16% - 1 seat
CON 32326 – 14.83% - 1 seat
OTH 10291 – 4.72%

Anything else - including Highlands at 5 or 7 seats - unchanged.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Apologies for the delay.

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I'm currently doing the West Midlands (only Brum worked out so far; took the whole City Council area and split it, north/south, in half. I did this to make sure that Sutton Coldfield was in the same constituency as Aston, Lozells, Washwood Heath, Shard End etc... boy would they howl about that in real life ). The predictable problems be occuring (constituency boundaries there are not very helpful at times...) but I hope to have it up fairly soon.

[Angel of Death]

It doesn't make sense to use party-list proportional representation to fill so little seats per constituency. In that case, you might as well use single transferable vote instead.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It doesn't make sense to use party-list proportional representation to fill so little seats per constituency. In that case, you might as well use single transferable vote instead.

The idea is for the seats to be done by STV (a system that I do actually quite like), but it's not really possible to work out notional results using it.

O/c it should be noted that the party system would change quite a lot if there was a switch to this sort of electoral system; the LibDems would likely split and the Greens and UKIP (or some similer party of the "populist" right) would end up doing a lot better than they do now.

[Angel of Death]

Here are the differing results when using Sainte-Laguë:

Cumberland
Tories: 1 (-1)
LDems: 1 (+1)

East Lancashire
Labour: 2 (-1)
Tories: 2 (+1)

South Lancashire
Labour: 4 (-1)
Tories: 2 (+1)

The Wirral
Labour: 2 (-1)
Tories: 2 (+1)

South of Scotland
Tories: 1 (-1)
SNP: 1 (+1)

Lanarkshire
Labour: 3 (-1)
Tories: 1 (+1)

City of Glasgow
Labour: 4 (-1)
Tories: 1 (+1)

Tayside
Labour: 1 (-1)
LDems: 1 (+1)