Australian Prime Minister John Howard
This week Australian Prime Minister John Howard will mark ten years in office. Howard is a member of the Liberal Party and was elected in a partisan election using ranked choice voting. His Liberal Party replaced the Labor Party in office when they took control of the government in 1996.
Howard's term in office has been marked by an enormously stable and robust economic boom. The Sydney stock market's capitalization has swung skyward. Inflation is down to about 2.5%. Employment has increased. Today, more Australians own stock than belong to labor unions.
Ranked Choice Voting in Australia has helped allow that country to have a stable government with a multi-party system.
posted by Kelly Haughton @ 2:31 PM
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According to an official site of Australia:
The prime minister is almost always the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives, the 150-seat lower house of the bicameral parliament. Members of the House of Representatives, or MHRs, are elected from single-member constituencies, known as divisions. The upper house is the 76-seat Senate, in which each state is represented by twelve Senators, regardless of population size, and each mainland territory by two. Elections for both chambers are held every three years, usually with one half of the Senate being eligible for reelection.
[[ "Ranked Pairs" (IRV-P), if ever actually used anywhere, is FUNCTIONALLY EQUIVALENT to IRV. ]]
I'm assuming you mean Condorcet methods here.. I've never heard it called IRV-P, though, and that's a misleading name. What you said about functional equivalence is simply false: it's easy to find situations where the IRV winner is not the Condorcet winner.
IRV is a form of ranked choice voting, because you rank candidates in order. Condorcet methods are also forms of ranked choice voting, but they are not forms of IRV.
It's become clear that you don't understand the different election methods, Lee, but the least you could do is stop making your ignorance so obvious. All you're doing is making the election reform movement look like a bunch of fools.
BTW, here are descriptions of Australia's voting systems:
http://www.australianpolitics.com/voting/systems/proportional.shtml (Senate)
http://www.australianpolitics.com/voting/systems/preferential.shtml (House)
As you can see, they refer to IRV as "preferential voting", and it is used for House elections. Senators are elected through proportional representation.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the party with majority support in the House. He isn't directly elected with IRV (the PM isn't directly elected at all in parliamentary systems), but House members are, which means the PM is *indirectly* elected with IRV.
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