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bbrazil | 7 years ago

We've a STV system in Ireland, I'm not sure you'd classify our independents as centrist (by the Irish definition of centrist - by the US definition almost all our politicians are far left).

Overall the system works quite well, and the proportion of representatives a party has in parliament roughly aligns with first preference votes.

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manicdee|7 years ago

In Ireland you have had enough time for parties to trend towards the biggest chunk of votes, which is what I’m labelling “centrist” though perhaps this is really “populist” :(

Naming things isn’t easy.