{"id":4603,"date":"2019-11-06T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:46:06","slug":"lp-conference-delegate-member-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/lp-conference-delegate-member-power\/","title":{"rendered":"LP Conference: Delegate & Member power"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a result of arguements about the representative nature of hand votes within the CLP college at LP Conference, I did some sums and a chart. Here are my notes.<\/p>\n

CLP’s get one delegate for the first 749 members, then one delegate\/250 members, plus if they have 100 women, a women’s delegate and if they have 30 young people, they get an additional youth delegate.<\/p>\n

This means that a CLP with 50 members will probably get two delegates, a CLP with 200 members will most probably get three delegates and a CLP with 750 members will almost certainly get four delegates.<\/p>\n

The power of an indifiducal member is a function of the size of the CLP and the number of delegates. How much of a share in the decision to did the member have and how powerful is that decision?<\/p>\n

I chose to represent this as:-<\/p>\n

1 \u00f7 (members<\/em> \u00f7 delegates<\/em>) \u224d ( delegates<\/em> \u00f7 members<\/em> )<\/p>\n

I then chose to represent this as a ratio of the maximum value in the range, so the power index maximum is 1.<\/p>\n

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This doesn’t tell us anything that wasn’t obvious, small CLPs are over represented in a show of hand vote. I assume,<\/p>\n

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  1. All CLPs send their maximum delegation, they don’t the larger CLPs can’t afford it. (3,500 members = 15 delegates).<\/li>\n
  2. That the LP’s membership is 50%\/50% men and women, which means Parties with under 200 members get no woman’s delegate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The following explanations<\/p>\n

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    1. The plateau at (.5,100) & (.5,150) is caused\u00a0 by the modelling that parties with under 200 members can’t get a women’s delegate, at 200 member’s Parties get the right to send a woman’s delegate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      A frequency distribution of size of CLPs would be useful to understand how important this is. (If 50% of the membership are in parties above 750 members and 50% below, then this is obviously significant).<\/p>\n

      Here’s the spreadsheet that makes the chart;\u00a0member power at conference<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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