New Zealand Holds Parliamentary Election

On September 20, New Zealand elected a new Parliament. New Zealand, starting in 1996, has been using proportional representation. Here is the wikipedia article about the recent election, which not only gives the results, but offers a clear statement of how New Zealand’s system works. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.


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New Zealand Holds Parliamentary Election — 4 Comments

  1. New Zealand is one of the nations I tend to list when I find myself needing to refute claims that the Green Party is a “fringe” party or that it can’t get people elected at all. Germany and a few other European countries like France are some other nations I list as well. Our nation just has the dubious distinction of not being as democratic as we say we are.

  2. NZ had the olde DARK AGE Brit gerrymander system — and then got intelligent in the 1980s-1990s

    — EXCEPT for having the tyrant Parliament stuff — the same party hacks having both legislative and executive powers.

    NZ P.R. system is about 95 percent accurat — i.e. about 47-48 percent minority rule —
    compared to the about 30 percent minority rule gerrymander math in the U.S.A, U.K., Canada, India, etc.
    ——
    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.

  3. MONTEREY CALIFORNIA USA
    September 23, 2014

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    One of the thirty-three political candidates
    in a national “Unity Coalition” is visiting
    San Francisco California but she’s not there
    to campaign. She is there to help a very ill
    medical marijuana patient make the move back
    to Rhode Island.

    Anne Armstrong [Compassion], a write-in “United
    Coalition” candidate for Governor of Rhode
    Island is in San Francisco for a few days to
    do what she does best; be compassionate for
    her fellow Rhode Islanders.

    She and two other candidates on the Rhode
    Island side of the USA are battling the status
    quo over corruption in RI and that’s one reason
    why they do like the Unity Coalition’s #1 plank
    which is to end corruption in California.

    Of the three Rhode Islanders, only Tony Jones
    [Libertarian] for Lt. Governor is actually
    ballot-qualified. The other two, Anne
    Armstrong [Independent] for Governor
    and Pamela Azar [Independent] for Secretary
    of State, were declined ballot access after
    obtaining more than enough of the required
    signatures. But their names were eliminated
    from the state’s ballot due to alleged
    technical problems with some of the
    thousands of signatures which were
    painstakingly gathered by them.

    One thing that they are united on is the
    need to address the corruption. Anne
    Armstrong writes; “RI is a very corrupt
    state and the back door deals are staggeringly
    bold. And our legislators sell laws to the
    highest bidder and there is no balance of
    powers. It’s the state cops and people
    with good family connections running
    everything. Our State Attorney General
    hired a full time lobbyist on the taxpayers
    nickel just to write and lobby for laws
    that enlarge his fiefdom and his buddies’
    monopolies.”

    Contacting the candidates is probably easiest
    through their Facebook pages:

    https://www.facebook.com/anna.vrankar?fref=ts

    https://www.facebook.com/pamela.azar.921?fref=ts

    https://www.facebook.com/tonyjonesinri?fref=ts
    * * *

    For more information please contact James Ogle [Free Parliamentary] at (831) 383-1409 or to see the entire
    list of candidates, the team plan and the Unity
    Platform for the United Coalition please
    visit the web page:
    http://www.usparliament.org/usap-wp
    * * *
    end


    A coalition of Americans united for the purpose of establishing truly representative government at http://www.usparliament.org

  4. France is a very poor country to site in regards to advocate for proportional representation for the Green Party. Sadly, France has a tremendous influence in Africa.

    If you’re looking for a perfect voting system which gives exact, perfect, and pure proportional representation then why not select the only perfect system known which New Zealand does not use?

    One which calibrates up or down and is exact within .0001ths and greater?

    That system is the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagenbach-Bischoff method, ranked choice voting (RCV) within multi-winner districts of two or more only.

    Should you select New Zealand or Germany as examples then you’d be selecting voting systems which are not perfect. They are unfair and unjust to many voters because of the disproportional nature.

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