Content Categorized with "International Elections"
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Israeli Election Results Show Responsiveness of Proportional System
- Posted: January 24, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Middle East and Africa, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
As Tuesday's Israeli elections show, proportional representation systems guarantee that voters can change their government when they are unsatisfied with its performance.
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Putin Orders Return to Parallel Electoral System for Russian Duma
- Posted: January 7, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Do not be fooled by Vladimir Putin's claims that the reintroduction of single-member, winner-take-all seats to the Russian Duma will be a step towards a fairer and freer democracy in Russia. It is instead a step towards the continuation of one-party rule.
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Everything You Need to Know About Israeli Elections Before Election Day
- Posted: January 4, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Home, Middle East and Africa, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Understanding the Israeli electoral process is not easy when coming from an American perspective, because Israeli elections are nothing like American elections. The election that will be held in Israel on January 22 will be different from the 2012 elections in the U.S. in almost every conceivable sense.
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Ukrainian Elections Are Another Example of Partisan Bias Caused by Winner-Take-All
- Posted: November 26, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Home, Europe, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Think the U.S. House elections had a structural bias in favor of one party? The partisan bias in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, held just a week before the American elections, was even worse.
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France May Introduce a Little Bit of Proportional Representation to its Legislative Elections
- Posted: November 12, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Europe, Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, International Elections
Proportional representation may be coming to the French legislature--or at least 10% of it.
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Putin's United Russia Wins Resounding Victories in Local Elections
- Posted: October 18, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
As the results of Russia's October 14 local elections show, the rumors of United Russia's death have been greatly exaggerated. But did Vladimir Putin's party manipulate Russia's electoral laws to keep power?
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Opposition Parties Win First Round of Lithuanian Elections
- Posted: October 17, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Lithuania's conservative government is likely to be toppled following a defeat in the October 14 national elections. Lithuania uses a combination of open list proportional representation and a winner-take-all runoff system based on geographic constituencies to elect its legislature.
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Major Media Gets it Wrong on Hong Kong Elections
- Posted: September 24, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties did not perform as well as expected in the September 9 Legislative Council elections. The New York Times would have you believe that the disappointing result can be blamed on Hong Kong's proportional representation system. But that explanation is misleading and distracts from the real problems of the city's electoral structure.
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“Mr. Normal” Francois Hollande to Face French President Sarkozy
- Posted: November 23, 2011
- Author(s): Hüseyin Koyuncu
- Categories: Home, Europe, International Elections
Francois Hollande, the so-called “Mr. Normal” of French politics, will now represent the Socialist party in the April 2012 general election as his party seeks to unseat incumbent first-term president Nicolas Sarkozy. The party’s most critical challenge will be to unite behind its official candidate, lest bitter feelings and ideological squabbling endanger the party’s chances against Sarkozy. Those focused on electoral process are particularly interested in how Hollande won France's first-ever national primary to pick a major party nominee
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International Snapshot: Japan 2009
- Posted: November 24, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie, Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Research & Analysis, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, FairVote, All Reports
The Japanese parliamentary elections in August 30, 2009 marked a turning point in Japan’s political history. Since 1955, Japan has been dominated by one party, with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the governing party for all but 11 months. But in these elections the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) defeated the LDP, winning 308 seats to 109 for the LDP in the 480-seat House of Representatives.