Entries Categorized with "Asia and Oceania"
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Pakistan - Peaceful Transitions but Winner-Take-All Failure
- Posted: May 24, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Lizz Hudler
- Categories: Home, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Pakistan experiences a peaceful transition of political power, but its winner-take-all system threatens the country's democratic development.
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Philippines Holds Elections Using Degree of Proportional Representation
- Posted: May 17, 2013
- Author(s): Jonathan Gerstell
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Asia and Oceania, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
The Philippines, a former U.S. colony, held elections on Monday using a small degree of proportional representation that was recently expanded to include national parties by the Supreme Court.
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Japan's Electoral Unfairness Goes Deeper than Malapportionment
- Posted: April 8, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Sara Helmi
- Categories: Home, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide, Districts Plus
Several of Japan's high courts have called the 2012 election unconstitutional because of malapportionment. But the continued use of winner-take-all elections is the deeper cause of Japan's distorted electoral outcomes.
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South Korea Elects Its First Female President
- Posted: December 29, 2012
- Author(s): Patricia Hart
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
Women world leaders enhanced their numbers this month, as Park Geun-Hye of South Korea joined the current 13 female presidents and premiers on Wednesday, Dec. 19. Park was elected directly with 51.66 percent of the vote, while her party, the New Frontier Party (NFP), took 152 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly.
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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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Australia to Hold National Instant Runoff Voting Elections on August 21
- Posted: August 5, 2010
- Author(s): Cathy Le
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
Just three weeks after becoming Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard announced national elections would be held on August 21, 2010.
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2009 Japanese Election
- Posted: July 27, 2009
- Author(s): Forrest Barnum
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
As Japan heads into election season, prognosticators assert the inevitability of dramatic defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This potentially major shift in Japanese politics presents an opportunity for structural electoral reform of Japan's outaded parallel list system.
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Instant runoff voting in Australia: Guest blogger Ben Raue
- Posted: June 16, 2009
- Author(s): Rob Richie
- Categories: Instant Runoff Voting, Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
Former Australian Greens candidate Ben Raue writes on Australia's use of an instant runoff voting system in state and federal legislative elections, and the increased legitimacy and indepdence that IRV can provide to third parties.
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Pro-democracy movements in Zimbabwe endorsing PR
- Posted: June 16, 2009
- Author(s): Eve Robert
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide
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Philippines to extend use of proportional representation
- Posted: May 5, 2009
- Author(s): Eve Robert
- Categories: Asia and Oceania, Elections Worldwide