Sunday, December 6, 2009

Voting systems in each country

It seems truly amazing how different countries implement different type of voting systems. As we all know, no voting system is perfect, and none of them satisfies all five standard principles of voting theories. However, some of them yield more fair and democratic results than others. Following world map shows the most commonly used voting systems around the globe:

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/democracy/maps-pr.html

The most common two methods are plurality representation(FPTP=first past the post) and proportional representation(e.g. D'Hondt method).

Below table explains a country by country voting method used:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_voting_systems_by_nation

Finally, IPU and ACE project provide rich resources for global voting and electoral issues:

http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp

http://aceproject.org/

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