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date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:44:05 -0500,    group: uk.politics.electoral        back       
Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 12th March 2009   
In article , 
JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:

> The whole point of "P" R is to hand seats to parties that haven't 
> won them.

Or, to put it another way, with PR you don't give 100% of representation 
to a small minority of voters.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge                    http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/
date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:44:05 -0500   author:   unknown

Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 12th March 2009   
In article ,
    wrote:
> In article , 
> JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:

> > The whole point of "P" R is to hand seats to parties that haven't 
> > won them.

> Or, to put it another way, with PR you don't give 100% of
> representation to a small minority of voters.

No: you give it to a different set of (often) minority voters.

-- 
John M Ward - see http://www.horsted.john-ward.org.uk
--> In favour of returning all local decisions to local people!
date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:03:03 GMT   author:   John M Ward

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