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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

How would PR work with our parliamentary system? We vote for who we'd like to represent our area in parliament.

If the seats were allocated based on country-wide votes, how could we chose our representatives?

It's Party government not singular Presidency.

We vote for Parties.
There are many forms of PR.
I don't know which one would be the best, I believe it would need consensus between as many Parties as possible to decide on the right one.

However my own personal view is, if people think it right that voters can go out and vote for Parties who get 14% of the votes but only 5 seats.
Whereas those getting less and far less in some cases but get the same number virtually of seats or 72 for 2% less votes.
Fine, first past the post is good for those people.

However if voters would more like to believe their votes really counted and could make a difference.
Then first past the post is wrong for them.
Where an overall mandate of any size only comes from the number of seats won rather than the actual number of votes cast is near more irrelevant.

There hasn't been one Party government in the 20th century or so far 21st century.
Which got over 50% of the votes cast.
However then did end up winnning anything up to over 60% of the seats at times

I think it wrong and even moreso now where from to a third of voters up to 40% in this election just done don't even bother to vote at all.