non-gravity said:
From what I can see across the sea it is. |
I stand corrected. I just assumed England had proportional representation...
"The British schoolmaster Thomas Wright Hill is credited as inventor of the single transferable vote, the use of which he described in 1821 for application in elections at his school. The method, which guarantees proportional representation, was introduced in 1840 by his son Rowland Hill into the public election for the Adelaide City Council. Unlike several later systems, this did not allow for party-list proportional representation.
Single Transferable Vote was first used in Denmark in 1857, making STV the oldest PR system, but the system used there never really spread. STV was re-invented (apparently independently) in the UK, but the British parliament rejected it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
I suppose I am just another dumb American thinking they somehow knew something about the outside world.
