Japan uses proportional representation. On October 22, it held an election for House of Representatives, to fill 465 seats. Seven parties won seats; also 22 independents were elected. See the wikipedia page about the election.
Japan uses proportional representation. On October 22, it held an election for House of Representatives, to fill 465 seats. Seven parties won seats; also 22 independents were elected. See the wikipedia page about the election.
Japan does not use proportional representation and Richard Winger has been a source for false rhetoric for several decades.
Japan uses limited voting.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Read the second sentence of the wikipedia article.
Japan — 289 gerrymander area members / 465 total = 62.2 percent gerrymander members
— compared to 100 percent gerrymander area members in the USA Congress.
Richard, I do not like Wikipedia as a source so it is unlikely that I will read it.
But your writing that Japan uses PR seems misleading to me.
Japan does not use proportional representation.
The California Secretary of State says he can’t allow an “Independent Party” because such name is too similar to “American Independent Party”. “Independent Party”, he ways would confuse the voters. The Wikipedia article on this Japanese House of Representatives election indicates 3 parties with “Democratic” in the name – Liberal Democratic, Constitutional Democratic, and Social Democratic. The 1st two where the top two vote getting parties. Al together, over 30 million Japanese voted for a party with “Democratic” in the name. By his stand against the “Independent Party” name, the California Secretary of State is insulting California voters. Are Californian’s less intelligent and more easily confused than Japanese? I think not.
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Gene…. “Are Californian’s less intelligent and more easily confused than Japanese?” In short, yes. Americans are complete dumbasses. We wouldn’t have the government we do right now, if they weren’t. I’m not just talking Trump, either. Nearly everybody seated in the federal and state governments is a complete dumb ass. Idiots vote for idiots. A government is a shadow of the public. We have authoritarian dumb asses in office, thus the public is the same.
Alden: I agree that “Most people deserve exactly the government that they elect. Unfortunately, others of us have to share it with them.” My principal point with my post was that the Japanese election might give a good argument for those arguing before Calif. court that “Independent Party” should be an allowed name.
Japan elected 289 members from single member constituencies, and 176 members by proportional vote from 11 regions, for a total of 465 members. The proportional members are not compensatory.
The LDP won 75% of the constituency seats with 48% of the vote. They won 37.5% of the proportional seats with 33% of the popular proportional vote. Overall, they won 61% of the seats.
The number of parties with MPs has declined from 10 to 8 to 7 over the past two elections, with parties being extremely fluid.
The number of independents is up from previous elections, but this appears to be particularly an artifact of the split of the Democratic Party. While some incumbents joined one or the other faction, some ran as independents. This does not prevent them from joining parties after the election. It appears that it was not too dissimilar from the case of Democrats in Maine not strongly contesting the election of Bernie Sanders and Angus King, knowing that they would caucus with the party in the Senate.
I spoke at BAN headquarters when I was a Green Party candidate for Governor of California and had my statement on every voters’ pamphlet in the 1994 State election and Google’s name derived from my initials joogle because of the personal attacks against me by Green Party bosses opposed to my message of pure proportional representation.
But Winger and BAN have made it clear that the United Coalition team is unimportant to the Libertarian Party, BAN and everyone associated.
I had reached out to all candidates, in the decades which followed, despite the foul, biased treatment that comes with Winger’s pluralism psychology.
The United Coalition is powered by votes, no matter how small or large the stack of ballots, the unity is unbending among the supporters and the winners’ threshold totals are always perfect, equal and very low.
We are hundreds of times more advanced than pluralists because of the mathematically perfect results.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
@James Ogle,
What exactly does the “United Coalition” do? or what are they responsible for? Is it just a club? Does it lead ballot lawsuits?
James Ogle: Richard Winger and BAN have long been quite courteous and too leniently have permitted you to post information on this site about your fantasy coalition. If you cannot get over your resentment from 1994 please do the rest of the readers/commenters on this site the courtesy of ceasing to post your all-to-lengthy diatribes on this site. You should be thanking Richard Winger for permitting you the exposure that he gives you.
ANNOUNCEMENT
By IP Senate Chamber Speaker James Ogle (Republican)
October 31st, 2017
The earth’s twelve population-balanced regional map is about 90% complete and the twelve named​ regions are linked in bottom navigation bar in Senate Chamber:
http://international-parliament.org/senate.html
Most of the twelve regions have primarily IP Senator names except for India Province #1, where many non-Senators were elected to the India Province #1.
Now we have contracted with a graphics artist/web designer, who will create an all new map of the earth, showing the twelve population-balanced regions of the earth.
The graphics artist wants all the countries within each Province to be list in ranked order, from largest to smallest in populations, so they can make the master map of the earth and a map of each of the twelve provinces, within four weeks (28 days).
As we are based in USA, our knowledge of all the states in China, India and Africa, where the largest numbers of states and/or countries get combined, our knowledge is limited and so we welcome outside help in compiling the correct lists, and the correct order, within each Province.
So should any IP elected volunteers, have the time to look at one or more of the twelve population-balanced regional Provinces that are connected in the Senate Chamber, and to make a corrected list of states that is an improvement over the list there, then we welcome your input.
The European Provincial Parliament is priority for November, as we rotate turns with each Province in same months of the years.
Should you have the time to look at the list on one or more Provinces, and to submit a more accurate list, more correct listings of the ranked order, we appreciate your interest now and over the next four weeks.
Message me privately to ask questions vicepresident@allpartysystem.org or phone (831) 224-5786.
The smaller states and countries, with lowest populations, are giving us difficulty in China, India, Africa, America and South Pacific.
For example, the two countries in North and South America, after all the population totals are balanced 50/50, are not yet known.
Please have patience over the next four weeks, as this and other projects, are causing delays in various sectors of responsibility, as we try to delegate more work to volunteers.