PREFERENTIAL
ADVANTAGES
- The successful candidate has to achieve an absolute majority so all votes and 2nd votes and so on may be used, preventing vote wastage
- Preference allocations allowing people to have their other choices and views represented
- No gerrymandering in Australia in particular as the Australia Electoral Commission
- It allows particles of like-minded philosophies or policies to ‘exchange preferences,’ in order to assist each other win
Promotes a strong two party system, ensuring stability in the parliamentary process
DISADVANTAGES
- Very complex system, that is often found difficult to complete
- Very hard also to count and recount votes, can take a very long, strenuous time to count
- Donkey votes can become more occurent as people may not understand the voting process, or just not care, creating an unfair result
- When people use a ‘how to vote card’, they often can give away votes, without meaning to
- Promotes a ‘two party system’ that is detrimental to minor parties and independent
Voters have to express a preference for candidates that they don’t want to support at all. (NSW and Queensland solved this by having optional preferential voting)
ADVANTAGES
- The successful candidate has to achieve an absolute majority so all votes and 2nd votes and so on may be used, preventing vote wastage
- Preference allocations allowing people to have their other choices and views represented
- No gerrymandering in Australia in particular as the Australia Electoral Commission
- It allows particles of like-minded philosophies or policies to ‘exchange preferences,’ in order to assist each other win
Promotes a strong two party system, ensuring stability in the parliamentary process
DISADVANTAGES
- Very complex system, that is often found difficult to complete
- Very hard also to count and recount votes, can take a very long, strenuous time to count
- Donkey votes can become more occurent as people may not understand the voting process, or just not care, creating an unfair result
- When people use a ‘how to vote card’, they often can give away votes, without meaning to
- Promotes a ‘two party system’ that is detrimental to minor parties and independent
Voters have to express a preference for candidates that they don’t want to support at all. (NSW and Queensland solved this by having optional preferential voting)