Sunday 14 June 2009

Making Rural Votes Count

The experience of STV (which, for various reasons, I don’t like anyway) for Scottish local government shows how very urban a system it is. Some of the wards are large to a point quite beyond absurdity.

If the country were divided into one hundred equally sized constituencies each electing three MPs, then three MPs should also be elected by the 99 units that are the English ceremonial counties, the Scottish lieutenancy areas, the Welsh preserved counties, and the Northern Irish counties.

597 MPs in all. Vote for one candidate by means of an X, and let the requisite number be declared elected at the end.

Why not?

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