[OC] What if the UK used the German electoral system?Submitted by Yodoliyee t3_10eqo4v in dataisbeautiful
11160704 t1_j4uhw70 wrote
Reply to comment by ferrel_hadley in [OC] What if the UK used the German electoral system? by Yodoliyee
I think the biggest problem with a first past the post system is that votes outside of the "swing constituencies" matter very little.
If you're a Conservative voter in Liverpool or a Labour supporter in rural southern England your vote is pretty much meaningless.
ferrel_hadley t1_j4uif4e wrote
If you are a CDU or SDP voter in Germany (for example) you can only guess at how much manifesto you get implemented and what gets negotiated away in coalition. Some countries (hello Belgium), forming a government is a major issue.
It think the political culture of the voting public is far more important than the voting system. I think the increasing intransigence and unrealistic nonsense is more to do with where modern politics is in the US and UK than the voting system.
11160704 t1_j4uinuz wrote
Well yes you can only guess how much gets implemented. But who says that exactly one manifesto of a random party is the optimal thing to implement?
In the end there is no objective right or wrong voting system.
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