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[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Versus FPTP, which funnels votes to 2 big parties, forces strategic voting and discards everyone else's opinions?

Ranked choice allows the politicians in a country to see what people actually want. There's been countless elections in my country where I'd have voted Green if I knew that vote would then be transferred to the party of my preference, rather than effectively being a vote for the party I like least (as a third party vote is in FPTP).

If the incoming government knows the only reason they got in was down to a load of transferred green votes, they would be pressured to push for a policy agenda more skewed in that direction and in theory should result in a government more representative of the people that voted for it

[โ€“] originaltnavn@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I would recommend looking at the Norwegian system, where each region elects multiple candidates proportionately to the local votes, and all parties above a certain percentage nationwide shares a pool proportionally as well. It's not perfect, but it gives a sane amount of different parties without the inevitable deadlocks of 100-party systems. The national pool limit can tune the approximate number of viable parties.

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Iโ€™m advocating for the single transferable vote not first-past-the-post. The results show that with the alternative vote the big parties are much more overrepresented in the makeup of the seats in parliament meaning that they will be less likely to listen to you. We need to have the seat makeup match up with the percentage of the votes.

[โ€“] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought STV was a form of Ranked choice?

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

It is but when people are talking about ranked-choice they usually mean the instant run-runoff ranked ballots. But here they listed them as separated.

[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Ah apologies, I missed that. STV is good too, the Scottish use that and it results in good representation for everyone