Winner wins all... Not fair
One more round of election over... Switch on TV on 11th May. 90% of news of 10-15 news channels speak on one thing - the election results of 5 states... In any post-election analysis, two scorecards figure - 1. No of Seats and 2. Share of votes.
On the basis of former Govts form, collapse. Later is just for theoretical purpose :).
Share of vote does not matter as whether one wins by couple of hundreds of votes or few lakhs, result is the same - winner wins it all, looser looses it all.
Take the case TamilNadu election. The % share of vote for DMK led alliance was 45%. AIADMK led alliance vote share was somewhere around 40%. Out of 100 electorates, 70 voted (that was the turn out); and out of them 28 voted for AIADMK and 32 voted for DMK (i.e. 14% more). But If we look at the seats AIADMK+ got 69, where as DMK+ got 163 (i.e. 194% more). And the flaw is with the “simple majority” voting system.
I guess, political parties are silent about the system because even the victims of the system, think they can get benefited out of this flaw system 'next time'.
It is high time to dump the simple majority system and adopt MMP (Mixed Member Proportional System) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Member_Proportional, which is there in countries like Germany, NZ and the UK. Proportional representation is more democratic as everyone would be represented in true proportion and no group unjustifiably get promoted or demoted.
Are you all listening…
On the basis of former Govts form, collapse. Later is just for theoretical purpose :).
Share of vote does not matter as whether one wins by couple of hundreds of votes or few lakhs, result is the same - winner wins it all, looser looses it all.
Take the case TamilNadu election. The % share of vote for DMK led alliance was 45%. AIADMK led alliance vote share was somewhere around 40%. Out of 100 electorates, 70 voted (that was the turn out); and out of them 28 voted for AIADMK and 32 voted for DMK (i.e. 14% more). But If we look at the seats AIADMK+ got 69, where as DMK+ got 163 (i.e. 194% more). And the flaw is with the “simple majority” voting system.
I guess, political parties are silent about the system because even the victims of the system, think they can get benefited out of this flaw system 'next time'.
It is high time to dump the simple majority system and adopt MMP (Mixed Member Proportional System) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Member_Proportional, which is there in countries like Germany, NZ and the UK. Proportional representation is more democratic as everyone would be represented in true proportion and no group unjustifiably get promoted or demoted.
Are you all listening…
posted by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan at
7:00 AM
4 Comments:
i would suggest a better way is
lower house - conventionally filled.
upper house - seats proportional to the % of votes polled. 50% of seats of filled by party nominations. rest by candidates from parties losing by less than 2% margins.
-k
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]{s, at 10:38 AM
Dear Kumar,
Nice to see ur comments here.
Yes, upper house can be considered in this calculation of proportionate election system.
There is a third alternative.
U know, in US, when the congress was designed there was no consensus on the way the upper house will be formed. Connecticut, one small state of US, suggested to take 2 seats from each state, that makes 100 as the total seat upper house has in US Congress. But in case of India, we have upper house which is represented by states as per the proportion of population (like lower one).
As a third alternative the equal representation from each state in upper house may also be considered.
Regards
Hippu
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Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, at 8:58 AM
nice crticism on recent topics
By
sukhi_area, at 11:00 PM
Thanks Sukhi.
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Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, at 4:16 PM
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