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Friday, 07 May 2010 15:37 |
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I was reading another blog earlier dealing with this issue and there were some interesting views from other European systems:
"The Swedish voting system is basically a full multi-party, proportionate system, but in order to avoid deadlocks there are two tweaks, first an odd number of seats in the parliament, and a 4% bar for getting a seat in the parliament."
"The 4% bar means that in order to get a seat in the parliament a party must get at least 4% of the votes. This rule stabilises the parliment and keeps most of the small fringe parties out ( revolutionary communisst/nazis/ultra religious). The parliament has been lead by different coalitions for many decades now and while there are often negotiations needed to form the coalition that is typically done in a few days when only larger parties are involved."
The full blog post and the comments are well worth a read, after all this isn't a uniquely British problem, all democratic system face such problems:
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/is-the-british-voting-system-fair/
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