#Dry_Paramedic_9578

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Electoral Systems used for the Lower House of National Legislatures.

by u/Dry_Paramedic_9578

There are some places where I had to end up sorting them into a specific category, and this is fairly simplified, so Just an FYI that I know what the deal is with most of them. If I was dramatically wrong though on something please lmk, just so I could know for future knowledge because Knowledge = Cool.

Also yes I do in fact know Westminister elections include Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and that this is a double standard because I used Congressional election method for U.S. States. I just decided to use the devolved parliament's electoral systems because they've been gaining more devolved power and in general shows you more of what that country's "system" is, rather than just showing Westminster. I put england as the system that westminster used because it's used in all elections there, and they don't have a Devolved parliament.

Somalia has a Parliament but it is elected in a very odd way due to the Civil War mostly consisting of a hierarchy of electoral colleges of village chiefs, etc.

The Sahwari Arab Democratic Republic elects its Legislative Council, but it's a one party state and it's mostly not realistically democratically elected and is mostly just a vehicle for the Polisario Front.

In nations like Israel or the Netherlands I considered the entire nation a multi-member district on the same level as Ireland or Poland has multi-member proportional districts, I am aware of that but to be fair it's still a multi-member electorate doing the election process.

I classified Nonpartisan Blanket primaries in several U.S. States such as Washington or California as runoff, or two round systems, because even though they aren't called "First Round" or "Second Round" and instead are called "Primary" and "General election", and even if you receive a majority in the primary you still go onto a general election, it's effectively a Two-Round system.

Puerto rico appears yellow but that's because it's a Diagonal Stripe that covered the whole island, it's a Mixed-member plurality system (except main difference is that it uses SNTV instead of PR).

I tried to make the legend and the names of the systems as clean and straightforward as possible, even if those names aren't what are commonly used to describe the system. Most people would probably describe STV as a Proportional system, and many countries simply just call it "Proportional Representation", such as Ireland, the USA, or Australia, but I called it Multi-member preferential as opposed to Multi-member proportional because I already differentiated Single-member preferential.

I classified General Ticket like Chad systems under Block voting, despite the fact that you're voting or a party and not candidates, just because it's effectively block voting through the process of parties, and it would be disingenuous to call it Party List PR.

It sorta get messy when it came to Mixed-member systems besides MMP or AMS, just because there's so many combos you can do, so that was mostly oversimplified, and the share of the body elected by each system is very different in each place.

Anyways, that's the map