PARTIES OVER QUOTA IN THE CONGRESS ELECTIONS
Day 2,409, 20:12
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by Bree K
First here's the data as of now
The list reads PARTY/NO OF CANDIDATES/VOTES/PERCENTAGE/ AND SEATS WON
KHMC / 3 / 21 / 21.65 / 4
ARP / 3 / 7 / 7.22 / 1
ADP / 7 / 46 / 47.42 / 9
QUEENS / 1 / 8 / 8.25 / 2
APP / 6 / 15 / 15.46 / 3
The number of seats is determined by the number of regions held by a country at the time of election. At the close of nominations we held Jizan and just won Western Australia by a hair before the system clicked over from nominations and ballot ordering to open of polls. I'm going to guess it counted WA and assume the next congress will have 20 seats. Obviously if i'm wrong that will throw the numbers out somewhat.
How does it work?
It's been a while since we've had a congress election so its a good time to go over rules of counting in the ERep congress elections system.
The election system exhausts votes (doesn't count further) if the number of votes for that party is higher than what's needed to elect the total number of candidates.
The system doesn't know what to do with these votes so it starts deleting seats in the congress.
What does that mean?
So far Knighthawks, ADP and Queens have too many votes per candidates. Knighthawks is over by 1. ADP over by 2 and Queens over by 1.
If at the end of the committee phase a party is still over 100% quota the system will delete congress seats to that value.
Currently that equals 4 seats gone.
In dollar terms that means 8 citizenship passes gone.
8 proposals unable to be made by congress members.
What do we do to stop it?
Party members should talk to their party presidents about options to direct votes to another party. I'm not going to suggest or direct voters that's not my responsibility or right but if the parties remain over their maximum vote need it will be bad. It's not about vanity when our congress will lose seats.
Sorry about the rushed article thought to get this out asap.
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Bree it is good to see that you are aware & on top of this.
And it is a really good point you are making that this is not about vanity but about representation.
Nevertheless it is relevant that the Knighthawks suggest/indicate where votes should go - with the proviso of course that it is in the end down to individual voters
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Hugh checked with admins yesterday as we weren't sure when the deadline for regions was. Admins said day change on the 23rd and we didn't have WA at that point, so we should only have the 10 seats rather than 20 with spaces not filled.
amazing how there's now STV in this world
Voted. I was on top of it yesterday ( http://prntscr.com/3wmwlq ) and especially worried as PP of the ADP, that when we ''liberated'' Western Australia and the concern was we'd have 20 senate seats in the election and a lack of candidates. Myself, the CP Claire Louise and Jeff Vader had a lengthy discussion with regards the consequences whilst waiting for the response. Thankfully the admins were unusually fast in responding so we were able to calm our fears.
However the ADP did offer to run parties outside the top 5 a few days ago and if I am party President again next month and we do have a 20 seat senate then i will be opening that invitation again.
This is not the first time this has happened. I guess in some ways we are fortunate that we only won 10, but I 100% agree with the sentiment about parties not having enough candidates. Good work and thanks.
Thank you for this! As a newbie, I appreciate you taking the time to explain how the system works! Voted and subbed!
o7 voted!
thanks everyone yeah i didn't know what the system was going to decide in region/seat numbers it was close timing.
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