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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 3339521" data-attributes="member: 7240">Proportionality is important if there are any minority opinions. For instance, in past years anti-incumbent voters have made up a significant bloc but because their votes are widely distributed, they have rarely counted much in the race. STV will allow these people to pool their votes more effectively, producing a more proportional result for them. Similarly, the capacity to concentrate votes will enable people who favour female nominees to do so more effectively.Proportional representation is any system in which all votes count equally and in which, in a multi-candidate race, each candidate represents a different and distinct portion of the voters.IRV is a form of majoritarian voting. It produces a single Condorcet winner. STV is a form of proportional representation -- all PR is is all votes counting equally and assigning representative spots that represent the diversity of views not the consensus thereof. When STV is used in elections that have party affiliations, the results are proportional, as evidences by recent elections in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Queensland, Australia. Tough as it initially is to wrap one's head around proportional representation, good PR systems like STV work without parties.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 3339521, member: 7240"] Proportionality is important if there are any minority opinions. For instance, in past years anti-incumbent voters have made up a significant bloc but because their votes are widely distributed, they have rarely counted much in the race. STV will allow these people to pool their votes more effectively, producing a more proportional result for them. Similarly, the capacity to concentrate votes will enable people who favour female nominees to do so more effectively. Proportional representation is any system in which all votes count equally and in which, in a multi-candidate race, each candidate represents a different and distinct portion of the voters.IRV is a form of majoritarian voting. It produces a single Condorcet winner. STV is a form of proportional representation -- all PR is is all votes counting equally and assigning representative spots that represent the diversity of views not the consensus thereof. When STV is used in elections that have party affiliations, the results are proportional, as evidences by recent elections in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Queensland, Australia. Tough as it initially is to wrap one's head around proportional representation, good PR systems like STV work without parties. [/QUOTE]

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