Electoral reform

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Electoral reform refers to changing some component of an electoral system. Possible components to be changed include:

electoral formulae with examples

single member district, plurality - British parliamentary elections, U.S. Senate and most U.S. House and U.S. state elections

single member district, majority - French presidential and parliamentary elections, Georgia and Louisiana state elections

single non-transferable vote - Afghan parliamentary elections

single transferable vote - Irish, Maltese, Australian parliamentary elections

mixed member systems - Japanese, Italian, New Zealand, Macedonian, and Scottish parliamentary elections

personalized proprotional representation - German parliamentary elections

party list proportional representation with one national electoral district - Dutch and Israeli parliamentary elections

party list proportional representation with provincial electoral districts - Norwegian, Greek, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Sri Lankan parliamentary elections

preference voting proportional representation - Swiss parliamentary elections

allocation of representation in legislative bodies (size, boundaries and numbers of legislators elected from electoral districts/constituencies/ridings)

threshold voter turnout percentage required to make an election legitimate

threshold voter turnout percentage required for a party to win seats under proportional representation

percentage of the vote required for election of a candidate

ballot structure

(secret (Australian) or open)

(long or short)

categorical or ordinal voting

candidate qualifications

voter identity requirements

vote counting procedures

Possible electoral reform goals

Greater Proportionality

Enable representative recall: the power of the people to recall a representative such as already exists for California governors

Ensure one adult one vote