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voting_systems.json
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voting_systems.json
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{
"voting_systems": {
"AMS": {
"name": "Additional Member System",
"wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additional_Member_System",
"description": "In an election using the Additional Member System, each voter casts two votes: a vote for a candidate standing in their constituency (with or without an affiliated party), and a vote for a party list standing in a wider region made up of multiple constituencies.",
"uses_party_lists": true
},
"FPTP": {
"name": "First-past-the-post",
"wikipedia_url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting",
"description": "A first-past-the-post (abbreviated FPTP, 1stP, 1PTP or FPP) or winner-takes-all election is one that is won by the candidate receiving more votes than any others.",
"uses_party_lists": false
},
"sv": {
"name": "Supplementary Vote",
"wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_vote#Supplementary_vote",
"description": "Under the supplementary vote (SV), voters express a first and second choice of candidate only, and, if no candidate receives an absolute majority of first-choice votes, all but the two leading candidates are eliminated and the votes of those eliminated redistributed according to their second-choice votes to determine the winner.",
"uses_party_lists": false
},
"STV": {
"name": "Single Transferable Vote",
"wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote",
"description": "The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies (voting districts).",
"uses_party_lists": false
},
"PR-CL": {
"name": "Closed List",
"wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_list",
"description": "Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can (effectively) only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected.",
"uses_party_lists": true
}
},
"defaults": {
"local": {
"nations": {
"NIR": {
"default": "STV",
"dates": {}
},
"SCT": {
"default": "STV"
},
"ENG": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"WLS": {
"default": "FPTP"
}
}
},
"parl": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"nia": {
"default": "STV"
},
"europarl": {
"default": "PR-CL"
},
"naw": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"senedd": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"sp.c": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"sp.r": {
"default": "AMS"
},
"gla.c": {
"default": "FPTP"
},
"gla": {
"default": "AMS"
},
"pcc": {
"default": "FPTP",
"dates": {
":2023-05-03": {
"default": "sv"
},
"2023-05-04:": {
"default": "FPTP"
}
}
},
"mayor": {
"default": "FPTP",
"dates": {
":2023-05-03": {
"default": "sv"
},
"2023-05-04:": {
"default": "FPTP"
}
}
},
"ref": {
"default": "FPTP"
}
}
}