The Impact of Proportional Representation
February 9, 2010 · Posted in Electoral Reform
An interesting analysis in the New Statesman of how the different systems of PR might have affected the result of the last General Election. I say ‘might’ because, of course, we can’t know what the impact would have been. The assumption underlying the analysis is that people would have voted the same, which is not necessarily true. Knowing that PR is in operation when you turn up to vote could affect how you cast that vote.
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