It is an all too common by-product of a first past the post (FPTP) electoral system that inclines to reduce politics to ...
If B.C. had a different electoral system, the breakdown of representatives elected to the legislature might look a little ...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has publicly opposed it so far. The party’s reluctance is likely due to its perception as the “party-in-waiting” after the ouster of the Awami League-led government.
Since our country gained independence in 1971, the electoral system has undergone numerous changes, including coups and large ...
While this month’s election will surely produce yet another single-party dominated state legislature, for Californians exhausted by our national duopoly, dissatisfied with our statewide monopoly and y ...
Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik, commonly known as Shujan, expressed its strong support for proportional representation-based elections. The organisation also called for the restoration of a non-party ...
The 2024 UK general election has strengthened the call for proportional representation (PR). Labour won 63% of the seats with 34% of the votes, an absurd disproportionality that wouldn’t have occurred ...
Cllr Platt’s motion goes on to say: “This Council needs to move to a system of electing chairs on the basis of proportional representation; with the Mayor electing his Executive based on ...
CITING the constant criticisms it has been getting, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday, October 18, 2024, called ...
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announced candidates for the upcoming bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, including the Khair seat with Pahal Singh as its choice. This decision follows the BSP's tradition of ...
Despite big shifts in places like Pittsburgh and DC, the demographic is still wildly underrepresented in the sector.
"Proportional [representation] means if a party gets 25 per cent of the vote, they get 25 per cent of the seats," he told Daybreak North host Carolina de Ryk. That means under proportional ...