Re:Death to the Gerrymander
by knz on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:03AM
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New Zealand has Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) where you vote for a local representative and also a party.
There are a fixed number of local representatives and the rest of the 120 available seats are made up by the total party vote. So if you won 10 seats but 25% of the party vote you would have 10 representatives and 20 list/party MP's.
It has also worked very well to give third parties more power and help keep the two main parties closer to the political center.
There are a fixed number of local representatives and the rest of the 120 available seats are made up by the total party vote. So if you won 10 seats but 25% of the party vote you would have 10 representatives and 20 list/party MP's.
It has also worked very well to give third parties more power and help keep the two main parties closer to the political center.