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Originally Posted by Damien
No you can select runners up. Let's take the French Presidential Elections, they must get 50% because they don't think a President can claim a mandate without 50% of the vote. If 50% fails to materialist they have a run off where the person with the lowest share of the vote is eliminated (it might actually be all candidates below a certain %, I forget) and people vote again.
This system does that but all in one go. You don't have to provide runners up, you can just vote for one person and decide you don't want your vote to go to anyone else in the event your candidate doesn't get in.
The effect is that over 50% of the population should be slightly happier with their MP, even if it wasn't their first choice. So that 35% of the area hasn't chosen the mp for the entire 100% of the constituency for example.
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Example.
Favourite party has 2 candidates. One is good, one is not worth voting for in your opinion.
So the choice is, either vote for the one you don't want, or don't vote for a second choice and don't get the candidate you do want elected.
That is not an improvement.
We need the best people in the commons, not the most representative of the diversity of the nation.
For instance, would you really say that a Monster Raving Loony or CURE MP would be of benefit to the running of the nation?