Australians AV an unproportional electoral system
For those confused by the Australian election, which you may have heard was close, but you now see is likely to see the coalition returned with 87 of the 150 seats, a majority of 24, which scaled up for British comparison would be over a 100.However here are the forecast vote shares (with change on last time and seats as a % of the total). The coalition got 46.8% of the vote (including the Country Liberal Party) but took (assuming forecasts correct in both cases) 58% of the vote. At the party level with less than 1.07 times more votes than Labour, the Liberals will have 1.25 times more seats.
Liberal 40.7% 75 (50%)
National 5.9% 12 (8%)
Labor 38.2% 60 (40%)
Greens 7.0% 0 (0%)
Democrats 1.1% 0 (0%)
One Nation 1.1% 0 (0%)
Others 6.0% 3 (2%)
posted by Matthew @ 10/11/2004 09:55:00 AM
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