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Cracker: Mix Your Members
I'll match Stephen's opinion that we should keep the five percent threshold, and raise him the idea that we should…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review: Trusting Voters
That’s the whole point of a threshold, takes away small-party seats and gives them to (most often) the biggest.
The…
Legal Beagle: Coalition of Losers
There is a 2% threshold in Israel.
Ah, right. But back in the day I thought it was lower -…
Hard News: Back in the mainstream
Multi-seat STV is far better, and roughly proportional within constituencies (though disproportionate overall due to the threshold effect). But I…
Hard News: Footpaths, not manifest destiny
I forgot to mention that while UKIP should have got one seat (in my view), there was an arbitrary 5%…
Hard News: The Creepy Party
Maybe people might see the argument for thresholds here - 1/25th of the country gets two ministers and any crazy…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
Interesting as always Graeme
I tend towards the no threshold at all but see your point about needing three MPs…
Legal Beagle: A draft submission on the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill
Thanks for sharing this. One question - what threshold are you referring to in your overview, where you state "I…
Cracker: Mix Your Members
My main point wasn't the n-1 argument. Although it probably seemed that it was.
My point was that 115,000 voters…
Legal Beagle: Threshold
Glad you mentioned Israel.
Low thresholds - say 1% - encourage single issue parties, individuals with a strong local following,…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review - The Proposals
Presumably "removing the one electoral seat threshold" means "winning one electorate, but getting less than 4% of the total vote,…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
It does appear that 5% is too high in that the alternative of 1 electorate MP has become the avenue…
Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The (un)certain Scenario
although the Netherlands won't allow a party's first seat to be a remainder seat, so it would be kinda like…
Legal Beagle: Council Elections: STV Q&A
Exactly. It shifts the debate over to the question of 'when does a so-called 'small ' party become a so-called…
Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the no threshold hypothesis
Sorry, but I have to disagree with this. The Conservatives were basket cases- they self-destructed (almost) only a year after…
Hard News: Don't bother voting
Not that it would fix this particular scenario, but I'm inclined to ditch the threshold and just stop electing MPs…
MMP: This Time It's Binding
Note that if the threshold goes to less than 2%, then the "coattails" effect disappears, because a party that gets…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
This argument the one seat threshold empowers minor parties is nonsense, anyway. The one seat threshold empowers major parties: functionally,…
Up Front: Mmmmmm, MMP
Those considering alternatives should think about MMP as it was originally proposed by the Royal Commission - before the sitting…
Polity: Government votes not to improve MMP
Given that the Electoral Commissions proposals would reduce the overall proportionality of Parliament, I’m not exactly unhappy about this.
Say…
Hard News: If wishing made it so ...
I thought the same threshold __was__ meant to apply.
Cracker: Mix Your Members
Ben, I don't think the threshold is there to keep minorities or weirdos out. A bunch of them get in…
Legal Beagle: Threshold
Countries that have a low threshold, do they have trouble with stability? Thinking Israel here, any other examples?
The Weimar…
Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The (un)certain Scenario
recommend removing the "one seat rule" and may well also recommend lowering the 5% threshold.
yes, that would be good.…
Legal Beagle: MMP Review #1: The Party Vote Threshold
My understanding Ben is that you are equivocal about the one seat threshold, and not taking an unequivocal right or…