Proportional Representation Of Parties

Question 1

Proportional representation of parties:

Question 2

KU: ams has good party representation because the % of votes that a party gets is equal to the % of seats they get. This means that votes are never wasted and smaller parties can get seats.

Question 3

A: this is important because it means that smaller parties get represented because if fptp was used they usually wouldn’t get any seats at all. For example

Answer 3

if the sp used fptp the snp would have a huge majority.

Question 4

KU: fptp does this poorly since it gives an advantage to parties with higher areas of concentrated voters

Answer 4

meaning they’ll win more seats even if they don’t have loads more votes. For example labour won 412 seats but only had 33.7% of the vote total. (Winner takes all)

Question 5

A: this is important because it means that not all voters are being represented since people who vote for smaller parties have lower voter concentration so their votes get wasted.