Fourteen Parties Win At Least One Seat in South Africa Election

South Africa held a parliamentary election on May 8, to fill the 400 seats in its national legislative body.  Fourteen parties won at least one seat, under the country’s proportional representation system.  However, the ruling party won a majority of 231 seats.  See the wikipedia article about the election.


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Fourteen Parties Win At Least One Seat in South Africa Election — 5 Comments

  1. Statism in SA more or less since the end of the olde regime in the 1990s ???

  2. With the closed list ROT —

    the SA regime is one more de facto monarchy-oligarchy.

    PR and AppV

  3. SA doesn’t use pure proportional representation even though their constitution calls for it.

    SA doesn’t use ranked choice voting in multiple winner districts and it is misleading to say SA uses proportional representation, much less pure proportional representation.

    The United Coalition USA has been using the correct math for pure proportional representation since 1992 when mathematician Mike Ossipoff [Peace and Freedom] provided the equation for the Hagenbach-Bishoff method.

    Our team had been bringing the correct standards for the new winning strategy proven to bring the unity phenomena that’s sweeping the earth.

    Go Ogle [One]
    (Not affiliated with Google One)
    http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php

  4. SA — mere 1.78 pct of valid votes did NOT elect a member.

    DARK AGE USA – routine 38-49.9 percent of voters do NOT elect members.

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