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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I get all that, but how does it fit into 650 constituencies? If electing 5 ministers to each constituency you'd need to reduce that to 130 constituencies so there'd need to be some allocation to individual areas in the constituency or a bit of a loss of identity of your representative.
Just a small concern.
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It doesn't fit into 650 constituencies. The only way it works is with a smaller number of larger constituencies represented by more than one elected member. This is what has happened in Scottish councils. There are fewer wards, but 3-4 councillors per ward.
The means by which you shuffle the votes around to achieve the 'transferable' aspect of STV, and how it ultimately results in broadly proportional representation, is frighteningly complex, but if you want to know exactly how it works, you can read up on it with the PDF available here:
http://www.votescotland.com/stv/file...nVS19Apr07.pdf
You are concerned about the impact on local representation ... fair enough, but I'm not convinced that that argument trumps the obscenity of a party getting 9% of the seats from 23% of the votes, which is the position the Lib Dems are in right now. Why should so many people
not have their voices adequately heard in Parliament?