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yemane kassa 25th November 2009 |
I found it is good.It gives me many informations democracy and democratic index. My problem is about the types of elections or the electorial system of diferent countries and how they use it. |
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P.E.C. Filipinas 20th July 2009 |
I think that the electoral system of the Philippines should be indicate as both block and first past the post. In the local government level, a legislative body is composed of one or more districts. Voters select a number of candidates for a particular number of legislative membership in that same district. Example, a provincial legislative district is usually composed of 4 members. In a particular district, candidates would run against each other to win those 4 seats. Each voter will cast 4 votes, but they cannot vote for the same candidate more than once in that election. That's what I understand about the block voting system. However, in the national level, each legislative district is only a single member constituency. The votes would have to cast one vote to the candidate of their choice. However gets the most votes wins. I think that's essentially a characteristic of first-past-the-post-system. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 1st June 2005 |
Rushelle, Guyana’s electoral system type is proportional representation, which means that parties running candidates are awarded a percentage of seats in the parliament or national assembly that corresponds to the percentage of votes cast that they receive. In Guyana’s last parliamentary elections, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic political party won 53.1 percent of the votes and 34 seats, while the People’s National Congress/Reform party won 41.7 percent and 27 seats. Other parties winning seats were the Guyana Action Party, Rise Organize and Rebuild Guyana, and the United Force parties. In 2001, Guyana had a voting age population of 556,488, and 440,185 registered voters. Registered voter turnout was 72.6%. The total number of votes cast was 403,769. Of those, 1.8 percent were invalid. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 10th March 2005 |
Electoral systems translate votes cast into seats. They fall into three families: plurality-majority; semi-proportional; and proportional. First-past-the-post, block vote, alternative vote, and the two-round system are plurality-majority systems. The semi-proportional systems are parallel, limited vote (LV), and single non-transferable vote (SNTV). List PR (proportional representation), mixed member proportional and single transferable vote are the proportional systems. In first-past-the-post, the candidate with the most votes wins. In block vote, there are multi-member districts and voters have as many votes as there are seats. Alternative vote and two-round systems use second preferences if no one wins 50 percent in the first round. In SNTV systems, each elector has one vote, but there are several district seats to be filled; candidates with the highest number of votes fill them. Parallel systems use both PR lists and plurality-majority districts. In LV systems there are multi-member districts, and winners are those who poll the most votes. Voters have fewer votes than there are seats to be filled, but more than one vote. In proportional representation (PR) systems, a party that wins 40 percent of the votes wins approximately 40 percent of the seats. They may use party lists, a mixed system or preferential voting. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 10th March 2005 |
Recently, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (173rd on this list) asked the 454-member parliament to amend Article 76 of the country’s constitution to allow for the first multi-candidate elections since a revolution deposed the monarchy in 1952. Up until now, Egypt has held presidential referendums every six years in which people vote “yes” or “no” for a single candidate approved by parliament. Mubarak became president in 1981 after Anwar Sadat’s assassination and has been nominated by the ruling National Democratic Party to stand in four presidential referenda, winning more than 90 percent of the vote each time. To become law, the amendment must be approved in a national referendum. The next presidential polls are scheduled for September. |
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Supoj 10th November 2004 |
I would like to know more about "Electoral system : first-past-the post, block, two round system and party list |
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