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daveon ([personal profile] daveon) wrote2010-05-10 01:35 pm

Alternative Vote...

Has anybody done any number crunching on what the outcome of this election would have been under the Alternative Vote system that's apparently on the table? 

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Not very different. So expect the Lib Dems to be keener on the Labour proposal (with AV now followed by referendum on other forms) than the Tory one, at the moment.
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[personal profile] drplokta 2010-05-11 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard to be sure, because you don't know what people's second preferences would have been, and nor do you know how many would have changed their first preference if they'd been able to choose a second preference to fall back to.