There’s a general election in Israel; famously it has a a fissiparous PR system. Here is a note on how it works as far as I can tell and been told.. …<\/p>\n
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There are 120 seats elected by a version of PR with a single constituency. This means that quota js .83% of the electorate, about 36.4 thousand votes assuming 4,4m voters, except, a party needs 3.25% of the vote to be allowed a single seat i.e. they need to be popular enough to win four seats to win one. Secondly, the transfer of surpluses is only allowed if there is an inter-party agreement. i.e. the transfer of surpluses belongs to the party not the voter.<\/p>\n
Strictly speaking this is a closed list<\/em> system using the D’Hondt counting method.<\/p>\n There is a risk that one’s vote gets trapped in a small party which fails to win a single seat and is thus wasted. This is a risk for the voter and that is one reason why the smaller parties really want to sign agreements.<\/p>\n Is it the system that’s at fault?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a general election in Israel; famously it has a a fissiparous PR system. Here is a note on how it works as far as I can tell and been told.. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[1529,141,1137],"class_list":["post-6769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-israel","tag-politics-2","tag-proportional-voting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/knesset-rafaelnir-unsplash-w1024-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}