Nonpartisan proportionality: Difference between revisions
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An important characteristic of NPV is that it enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties. Party lists are therefore not needed (as opposed to many other proportional electoral systems); it is the voters who create their own ordered list of candidates. The ranked voting also allows voters to form consensus behind the most popular candidates. | An important characteristic of NPV is that it enables votes to be cast for individual candidates rather than for parties. Party lists are therefore not needed (as opposed to many other proportional electoral systems); it is the voters who create their own ordered list of candidates. The ranked voting also allows voters to form consensus behind the most popular candidates. | ||
Nonpartisan proportional representation is used in all elections in the [[Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]], | Nonpartisan proportional representation is used in all elections in the [[Cascadia|Republic of Cascadia]], and were formally used in the Midwestern Union and Republic of British Columbia. | ||
==Process== | ==Process== | ||