Kasz216 on 11 May 2010
| Kantor said: STV is complicated, but I can somewhat understand it. Rank candidates, they get votes based on their rank, multiple seats for a district. Not great, but not too bad. Alternative Vote...seriously, what the HELL is it? It seems to have the same candidate ranking, but after that...what happens? What I thought was AV seems to be STV, in actual fact. |
Alternate Vote is a instant runoff system.
Picture this... for a seat
Conservatives 40%
Labour 35%
Liberal Democrats: 20%
UKIP 3%
BNP 2%
So... nobody has reachers 51%. So you eliminate the BNP... and they vote for their second choice... lets say Half UKIP, half Conservative. So now the Conservatives are at 41%, Labour 35% and LD 15%.
Ukips out next. Lets say that gets the conservatives to 45%.
Liberal Democrats are out next.... So say 16% of them go Labours way while 4% goes Conservatives.
Labour wins they now have 51% of the vote... the seat is now a Labour seat.
Now you see why Labour wants the AV.
