AV made easy.

Well its a first blog that no one will read or know about however it is something to do and will past a few minutes of time before I sit in front of my Xbox. So what should it be about myself? gaming? TV some other form of entertainment? perhaps.
Since the UK is going to have a referendum on a new voting system I thought i ll do a quick and easy explanation of the AV system over the Fptp system.
So the UK is split up in to constituencies and people run to get elected to become MP's,  in first past the post we all have one vote and the voting can go like this. Candidate A 35% B 15% C 20% D 30%. This is a basic look but on this Candidate A wins and becomes the MP for that area of the UK. However simple maths shows that more people in that area didn't vote for candidate A, just more then any other candidate. Under AV we have to list who we want so a person might so they like A B then C, and another person might say they want A C and B. Under AV you would need 50% of the vote so in the above vote distribution Candidate A wouldn't have won in the first round. The person with the fewers votes Candidate D would drop out and they would look at how the people voted for second on his votes. So if someone voted for D then A then B, they would count up the second votes and add them to the Candidates total. The person with the fewest votes would continue to drop out until some gains 50% of the vote.

Although this voting system seams more complicated I hope that this clears up a bit of the confusion.
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