By: BM
“We could have open party lists but then the voting would be skewed in favour of those with surnames higher up the alphabet, an arguably inferior method of selecting list MSPs than letting party’s sort...
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“The first story reported that Labour would allow Scottish Parliament candidates to stand on both the constituency and the list ballots with the second reporting that existing regional Labour MSPs...
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Labour don’t need to lose more seats for the current list MSPs to be in danger – they just need to maintain the levels they have. Any seats “gained” on the list won’t go to the current list MSPs, but...
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There is a bit of misunderstanding that needs to be cleared up here. First, there are no trigger ballots for labour list msps. There is a nomination process and then all the party members in an area,...
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“Again though, in practice, the parties at the top off the list (based on name or random) will always do better than one at the bottom, purelly because many voters look for the party name first aand...
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By: Doug Daniel
Having scrutinised the results of the Aberdeen council elections a few months back, I’m no fan of STV, for the reasons mentioned by flyingtrain. It just leads to parties trying to predict the result...
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@flyingtrain So basically it was a piece of bad reporting by Sunday Herald? Didn’t SLAB have a “top vacant list place should go a woman or BME candidate” rule in 2011 (which changed a couple of...
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Yeah, I mis-read, and took constituency MSPs to be shorthand for any Labour candidate standing in a constituency – but I also thought that was the whole point of this, getting the political talent lost...
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