What voting system do you use?

[ArghNeedAName]

What voting system do you use to elect your Parliament/Assembly and you leader (if they are elected directly)?

ArghNeedAName uses STV for the National Assembly, with each province is divided into 3 and 4 member districts. The most populous province (Kixas) has 71 seats and 21 districts; the least (Lancre) has 11 seats and 3 districts. We use Two Round voting for the Senate using single-member districts that sometimes straddle provincial borders. The President is also elected through two rounds. The waiting time between the two ballots is always two weeks. If one candidate recieves more than 50% of the vote on the first ballot, a second ballot is not needed.

First Past the Post is where the winner of the election in a district or presidential election is whoever recieves the most votes (a plurality), regardless of whether they recieve more than 50% of the vote or not. It's the most simple voting system and tends to create a two party system and a majority for the most popular party, with some exceptions. It is used in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

Two Rounds means that first an election is held for a single position using multiple candidates. If no candidate wins more than 50% (sometimes the limit is lower at 40-45%) of the vote another election is held two weeks later in which the first and second most popular candidates face each other off. The system is not proportional but does encourage a multiparty system, though it gives bias to the most popular parties. Loads of countries use this to elect their President; France also uses it for parliamentary elections.

Alternative Vote (Instant Runoff) is used to elect a single winner of a district or a national leader. Voters are allowed to chose a 1st, 2nd and sometimes even a 3rd preference. If no candidate wins a majority of 1st preference votes, the least popular candidate is eliminated and their votes are transfered to their supporters' second preferences. This is repeated until someone wins a majority. The result in an assembly election using AV tends to be a hybrid between FPTP and PR. Australia uses this for the HoR, Ireland and India use it to elect a President and London uses a variation to elect their Mayor.

Single Transferable Vote is used to elect multiple winners (usually 3-4) in a district. Voters chose a 1st and 2nd preference. A quota (the number of votes needed for a seat) is calculated. Candidates who meet the quota win a seat straight away. Their excess votes are then transferred to their supporters' 2nd preferences to allow more candidates to reach the quota. This complex system (used in Ireland and Australia) gives a rough proportional representation but also allows independent and locally popular candidates to win seats.

Semi-Proportional Representation is used in Germany, Hungary, the London Assembly and Scottish Parliament. It's where parties compete for both districts and for an at-large proportional vote. If a party wins a lot of votes but not many districts, it will be compensated by winning lots of the at-large seats. If a party wins a lot of districts, it will win less of the at-large seats. This keeps the assembly proportional but also allows local representation.

Proportional Representation does away with the need for districts. Instead, people vote for politicial parties and parties win seats in the assembly depending on how many votes they get. Often they have to get at least 5% of the vote before they can win seats. Parties decide membership by giving a long list of candidates in order of importance. Some systems allow voters to pick their favourite candidates on the party's candidate list and therefore give some popular candidates priority. PR is the system of choice in most of Europe and South America.

Rating Systems allow voters to not only pick their favourite party or candidate but also rate their attitude to the parties or candidates in general. They can rate the parties or candidates from 1-10 (usually) and the number of seats won by a party is decided by a point scoring system. No country currently uses this system.

Unfair Elections are when elections do take place but are a sham in which supporters of your leader always win, usually because they are rigged or because political opponents can't get onto the ballot.

No Elections speaks for itself.

[Hippostania]

FPTP without electoral districts

[Democratic Koyro]

single party system using proportional representation.

[United low territories]

We use a rating system, You can give every party between 0 and 5 points depending on how much you like them. The total number of point decides who gets how many seats.

The problem is that it led to a lot of new parties being created. After all, 2 parties with almost exactly the same ideas can get twice as many seats as one of them.

[Verdeguay]

Verdeguay uses a system of proportional representation where the party that comes in first place receives 60% of the seats in the legislature, regardless of what its percentage of the popular vote was. The remaining 40% of the seats are apportioned among the other parties in proportion to their share of the vote.

The President of the Republic is elected by simple plurality.

[Dizyntk]

"Being an absolute Monarchy we have no national elections. Municipalities are free to elect local leaders though and may use whatever system they wish."

[Cernagoria]

Who needs voting? That's why we have the Government.

[Ugasha]

Mr.Dictator has politely told us the people to say that we are perfectly happy as we are. i get a cookie now.

[Proloteriat]

PR. All people have the right to fote for any of my parties.
Communist Party.
Labour Party.
Center Party.
Companies first Party.
Proloteraian Nazi Party. (Widely regulated).
And Freedom party(No goverment.)

[Rynatia]

We use none of the above,Our general's elect a senate who elect an Emperor.

[Sucrati]

The good kind.

[Swilatia]

We use proportional representation to elect the parliament, and a two-round system to elect the president.

[Hashym]

We have a "citizen's parliment", in which instead of electing a parliment, there is one figurehead president, and any citizen can propose an addition to the constitution. All citizens get an equal vote, and if there are more votes for it, it is passed. The news, which is neutral, is very important and keeps all of our citizens educated so they can make good decisions.

[Sovereign Spirits]

Cities and large areas of population generally live under a form of government that necessitates the indirect election of major public officials. In smaller areas, this is usually direct, and usually for fewer major positions. In even smaller communities with a non-trivial election system, it is direct election for all public officials. In some places, elections are not held. These latter examples would include tribal and religious communities, as well as those who feel entitled by blood and have convinced their subjects of that as well.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

First Past the Post for the Common Yuan (Parliament)
Single Transferable Vote for Upper Yuan, because of multiple winners per constituency.

[TurtleShroom]

All elections in TurtleShroom function as follows:

The first candidate to get over fifty percent (an absolute majority) of the vote wins. If there is no majority winner, the single candidate with the lowest amount of votes is dropped, and there is a runoff until we have a winner. There can be unlimited runoffs until an absolute majority is reached.

It doesn't matter if the office is for a Senator (there are five hundred seats, each with a constantly redrawn, oddly shaped district), a judge on any level, or an official of the Executive/Chancellor's Cabinet. Even local governments prefer this.

All follow the same procedure (first to fifty wins, lowest loser dropped per runoff), but national-level judges and executive branch members run on the "Cajun Man's Primary" system.
This means that everyone is on the same ballot in alphabetical order. This usually means a long election with plenty of action and upsets. Unlike the link, TurtleShroomers don't actually operate a primary. Everyone lists their name and the voting begins, straight on and without hesitation.

TurtleShroom's ballot access laws are to the point that "ten year olds can found their own political parties"^{(NS ISSUE)}, resulting in hundreds of candidates on one ballot. There are thousands of political parties recognized by the government, but few ever receive national attention.

TurtleShroom still counts ballots by pen and paper, manually, because the older members of Congress and the populace still don't trust electronic machines.

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This would be called exhaustive voting and gosh that must cost a lot of money.

{UPDATE: this is called the exhaustive ballot, and heck yes it's expensive.}

[New Freedomstan]

First-Past-The-Post. Previously we used Proportional Representation, but that forced the Communist Party to act in coalition with non-Leninists. We changed to FPTP, and now the Communist Party can make policy alone. Hurrah for Socialism!

[Arkinesia]

In elections with only two parties fielding a candidate, the vote is taken with simple majority. Otherwise there is a second round with the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes, provided no candidate received more than 50% of the vote (however, no Presidential election has been decided with a second round to date).

[Imeriata]

Oligarchical voting is known to happen in some realms were the nobility simply assemble in Northern Venezue and vote (votes determined by the amount of land and title as well as how high those titles are a man posses) on the more important issues (as which issues that would require votes and which votes should be allowed to be handled by the high lord elective as well as vote forward a new high lord elective when the previous one dies)

[ArghNeedAName]

All elections in TurtleShroom function as follows:

The first candidate to get over fifty percent (an absolute majority) of the vote wins. If there is no majority winner, the single candidate with the lowest amount of votes is dropped, and there is a runoff until we have a winner. There can be unlimited runoffs until an absolute majority is reached.

It doesn't matter if the office is for a Senator (there are five hundred seats, each with a constantly redrawn, oddly shaped district), a judge on any level, or an official of the Executive/Chancellor's Cabinet. Even local governments prefer this.

All follow the same procedure (first to fifty wins, lowest loser dropped per runoff), but national-level judges and executive branch members run on the "Cajun Man's Primary" system.
This means that everyone is on the same ballot in alphabetical order. This usually means a long election with plenty of action and upsets. Unlike the link, TurtleShroomers don't actually operate a primary. Everyone lists their name and the voting begins, straight on and without hesitation.

TurtleShroom's ballot access laws are to the point that "ten year olds can found their own political parties"^{(NS ISSUE)}, resulting in hundreds of candidates on one ballot. There are thousands of political parties recognized by the government, but few ever receive national attention.

TurtleShroom still counts ballots by pen and paper, manually, because the older members of Congress and the populace still don't trust electronic machines.

This would be called exhaustive voting and gosh that must cost a lot of money.

[Frenezulejo]

In Frenezulejo we use Delegated Transferable Vote to elect our 60 Members of the Parliament .

DTV is similar to FPTP in which each voter votes for their favorite candidate in their constituency. The difference is that within a strictly controlled time period between when the votes are counted and the result being announced candidates can elect to have their votes transfered to another candidate in that constituency. The candidate with the most votes after the Delegated Transfers are taken into account is elected as Member for that constituency.

Some candidates publicly announce who they would transfer their votes for before the election, major political parties may field more than one candidate with a mutual agreement that the candidate with the lest votes will pass their to the stronger candidate. Others prefer to make their choice to transfer or not once they have seen the outcome of the non-transfered votes. Some candidates decide not to transferrer their votes, this can be for philosophical or pragmatic reasons and is not uncommon.

Our systems frees people to choice the best candidate (rather than the least worse) and uniquely empowers the candidate to make at-least one decision on the voters behalf.

The election of Lord Protector use a similar system but where all of the island is considered one constituency. In the 2011 election Maq Aptriskaideka gained over 72% of the original vote, making delegated votes unnecessary however some chose to transfer regardless in support of Maq (or his closest competitor for those wishing to make a statement of their opposition). It was declared that Maq had won that election with 77% of the vote.

[Maraque]

For the monarch, first the individual boroughs nominate a standing member from each royal family, then the top eight go head to head in a national election. The member with the most votes wins.

For the National Assembly, each borough is allocated a number of the 1,000 available seats depending on population (more people = more presentation). Each borough and territory is split into a number of districts for each seat, then individuals in those jurisdictions run for the available seats, with the person receiving the most votes winning.

[Valcluse]

The President is elected through a simple majority vote similar to first past the post, in the sense that a recount cannot be called if one of the candidates passes 70% support. Effectiively, it rules out weeks spent forming coalition partners.

Individual Members of Parliament are directly elected to their seats and the party with the majority support overall will receive the proportion of the seats in parliament equal to the ammount of support the party has.

The Prime Minister is not elected and is instead appointed by the President.

[Saurisisia]

Simple majority vote for town council members, mayors, representatives, and senators.

[Antarsia]

In Antarsia, citizens rate candidates from favorite to least favorite, the least favorite candidates are eleminated each round, and the votes people who rated him their favorite are attributed to their second most favorite candidate, this continues until the Candidate that makes the most people happy is elected. This avoids the inevitable two-party system caused by traditional voting.