Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
March 15, 2013
Summary:
The 2010 British election resulted in what the British refer to as a “hung Parliament” for the first time in over a generation. This result further heightened the debate over the fairness and utility of the nation’s centuries-old first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. Survey data are used to simulate the election outcome under four different electoral systems beyond FPTP: round-robin pair-wise comparisons, the Borda count, the alternative vote, and Coombs’ method. Results suggest that in 2010, the Liberal-Democrats were Condorcet preferred to all other parties and would have won a national election under every tested method except the alternative vote, the method supported by the Liberal-Democrats during the referendum in May 2011 and, of course, FPTP as actually used. 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Published in
Electoral Studies
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 32 , p.134 -139
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2012.10.002
ISSN
2613794
Subject
Notes
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