No criticism of your post but with a different electoral system, many voters would have voted differently.
What about if the last German election were held under the UK electoral system?
Seat map of the United Kingdom House of Commons if the 2024 Election was held under the German electoral system. The number of constitutencies won by a party was halved and rounded down to the nearest whole number. Despite the SNP and Sinn Fein not making the 5% threshold, they sill get full proportional representation, as they won more than 3 constituencies. Parties for ethnic minorities (I considered Plaid Cymru as such) also get full proportional representation, regardless of how many votes or constituencies they got.
It would help the non-Brita reading this if you put the delta from the current results somewhere.
It’d likely have a Conservative led, right wing coalition? Yay…
And you get a hung parliament or a coalition and you know how bad coalitions are, it’s screwed Germany on it’s energy policies when the greens got a say in abolishing nuclear power.
Wouldn’t a bunch of those parties not meet the German minimum threshold? This looks more like what would happen in a Dutch style straight up proportional system.
Looks like that would’ve been a Labour/LibDem/Greens/SNP coalition
I’d recommend the recent Veritasium deep dive into the trickiness of designing a fair electoral system that can’t be gamed.
One thing that’s off that I’m definite about is the seat number. Germany does not have a fixed number of seats. They have a fixed number of constituency seats, but proportional seats while fixed as well can change depending on how well other parties at the constituency level. For example the Green Party of Germany often does poorly at the constituency level, so they get way more proportional seats than expected, as they get bonus, so they can ever do better than parties that get more proportional votes.
So my main point is: take this post with a grain of salt, it’s probably closer to Scotlands electoral system than Germanies except a larger proportion of seats are from the proportional system.
There is absolutely under no way there would be 650 seats even if you halved all the constituencies and made half the seats proportional, as there would be ones added later.
98 Reform MPs? Fucking hell
So Germany have one of those…what do you call them…democracies?
Would be interesting to see the actual representation, cause right now, is it a bit different? A Lot different?
I don’t know
Seems a lot more representative of the popular vote
So they would have ended up with their own Ampel coalition 🙂
Is anyone allowed to enact any sort of enabling act here?
Can we PLEASE use this system in America ?? Kids are dying
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Data from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election
Visualization: https://parliamentdiagram.toolforge.org/archinputform
No criticism of your post but with a different electoral system, many voters would have voted differently.
What about if the last German election were held under the UK electoral system?
Seat map of the United Kingdom House of Commons if the 2024 Election was held under the German electoral system. The number of constitutencies won by a party was halved and rounded down to the nearest whole number. Despite the SNP and Sinn Fein not making the 5% threshold, they sill get full proportional representation, as they won more than 3 constituencies. Parties for ethnic minorities (I considered Plaid Cymru as such) also get full proportional representation, regardless of how many votes or constituencies they got.
It would help the non-Brita reading this if you put the delta from the current results somewhere.
It’d likely have a Conservative led, right wing coalition? Yay…
And you get a hung parliament or a coalition and you know how bad coalitions are, it’s screwed Germany on it’s energy policies when the greens got a say in abolishing nuclear power.
Wouldn’t a bunch of those parties not meet the German minimum threshold? This looks more like what would happen in a Dutch style straight up proportional system.
Looks like that would’ve been a Labour/LibDem/Greens/SNP coalition
I’d recommend the recent Veritasium deep dive into the trickiness of designing a fair electoral system that can’t be gamed.
One thing that’s off that I’m definite about is the seat number. Germany does not have a fixed number of seats. They have a fixed number of constituency seats, but proportional seats while fixed as well can change depending on how well other parties at the constituency level. For example the Green Party of Germany often does poorly at the constituency level, so they get way more proportional seats than expected, as they get bonus, so they can ever do better than parties that get more proportional votes.
So my main point is: take this post with a grain of salt, it’s probably closer to Scotlands electoral system than Germanies except a larger proportion of seats are from the proportional system.
There is absolutely under no way there would be 650 seats even if you halved all the constituencies and made half the seats proportional, as there would be ones added later.
98 Reform MPs? Fucking hell
So Germany have one of those…what do you call them…democracies?
Would be interesting to see the actual representation, cause right now, is it a bit different? A Lot different?
I don’t know
Seems a lot more representative of the popular vote
So they would have ended up with their own Ampel coalition 🙂
Is anyone allowed to enact any sort of enabling act here?
Can we PLEASE use this system in America ?? Kids are dying