Content Categorized with "Elections Worldwide"
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Sweden results: PR not just for the left
- Posted: September 18, 2006
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Europe, Elections Worldwide
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Mexico's polarized plurality election
- Posted: July 7, 2006
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Ranked Choice Voting, Americas, Elections Worldwide
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Lesson from South Korea on constitutionality of winner-take-all
- Posted: May 24, 2006
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
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Italian ruling coalition on the brink - again. But don't blame PR.
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Palestine: Voting system would overrepresent Hamas - again
- Posted: May 10, 2006
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Middle East and Africa, Elections Worldwide
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Hamas' victory: It's the election system, stupid
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International Snapshot: Palestine 2006
- Posted: February 1, 2006
- Author(s): Ryan Griffin and Jack Santucci
- Categories: Middle East and Africa, Research & Analysis, International Elections, FairVote, Elections Worldwide, All Reports
Palestine held elections to its Legislative Council on January 25, 2006. In that vote, Change and Reform (Hamas) took power away from the governing Fatah movement, winning 75 of 132 seats. Some commentators declared this a sweeping mandate for Hamas, speculating especially on what the power shift means for Israeli-Palestinian relations, but the election results are not an accurate reflection of popular opinion. Instead, the election system itself is at least as important as popular opinion in determining the makeup of the Council.
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Reforms help drive Iraq vote turnout to 70 percent
- Posted: December 19, 2005
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Middle East and Africa, Elections Worldwide
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Upcoming Iraqi Parliamentary Elections to Use Historic Proportional Voting System
- Posted: December 12, 2005
- Author(s): Jack Santucci
- Categories: Middle East and Africa, Elections Worldwide
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International Snapshot: Japan 2005
- Posted: September 25, 2005
- Author(s): David Moon
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, FairVote, Elections Worldwide, All Reports
The results of Japan’s September 2005 parliamentary elections have been held up by the Japanese media as demonstrating a stunning mandate for Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi, leader of the nation’s Liberal Democratic Party. FairVote’s analysis of the election results, however, indicates that this mandate was far from clear, with Koizumi’s party in fact winning just 38% of the popular vote. As our International Spotlight research series demonstrates, time and again, a nation’s choice of electoral system often has just as much impact on the election results, as candidate or party popularity and other factors.