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How Michigan Turned Blue in '22--by ending gerrymandering
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<blockquote data-quote="JSRG" data-source="post: 76996641" data-attributes="member: 418772"><p>That's how proportional representation works. Everyone just votes for their preferred party and then the seats are distributed among the parties based on what percentages they get. There are a few extra wrinkles--in some countries you technically vote for a person rather than a party, but that person is the representative of their party and thus it ends up the same. Also, typically there's some percentage that's required to get any seats in this (e.g. in New Zealand I think a party has to get 4% or higher to qualify for any seats).</p><p></p><p>There are definitely some advantages to this system, namely it obliterates gerrymandering and makes it reflect the general thoughts of the populace. On the other hand, there are some disadvantages. It makes politicians feel less like individuals because they're all just hand-picked by the party leader; you're not going to see many people who feel like more independent members of their party. And it also means that no one is actually representing the specific interests of your district. Thus some areas that have proportional representation (like the aforementioned New Zealand) have mixed member proportional representation; part of the legislature is elected like that of the US, in a district-based system where one person wins a district, and part of it is done via a separate proportional representation vote (so, when you go to vote, you vote for your preferred party for the proportional representation part, and have a separate vote for the person to represent your district).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JSRG, post: 76996641, member: 418772"] That's how proportional representation works. Everyone just votes for their preferred party and then the seats are distributed among the parties based on what percentages they get. There are a few extra wrinkles--in some countries you technically vote for a person rather than a party, but that person is the representative of their party and thus it ends up the same. Also, typically there's some percentage that's required to get any seats in this (e.g. in New Zealand I think a party has to get 4% or higher to qualify for any seats). There are definitely some advantages to this system, namely it obliterates gerrymandering and makes it reflect the general thoughts of the populace. On the other hand, there are some disadvantages. It makes politicians feel less like individuals because they're all just hand-picked by the party leader; you're not going to see many people who feel like more independent members of their party. And it also means that no one is actually representing the specific interests of your district. Thus some areas that have proportional representation (like the aforementioned New Zealand) have mixed member proportional representation; part of the legislature is elected like that of the US, in a district-based system where one person wins a district, and part of it is done via a separate proportional representation vote (so, when you go to vote, you vote for your preferred party for the proportional representation part, and have a separate vote for the person to represent your district). [/QUOTE]
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