I don’t know if that is completely true but I think in countries without the first pass the post system this is not even a problem. For example in Germany every voter has one vote and they are all added together in the end. The districts are only for managing the vote counting but have almost no influence on the end result.
Gerrymandering isn’t a thing with presidential elections. The districts are used for congressional elections where there are multiple representatives per state.
Nope, presidential elections use the total for the whole state and electoral college fuckery. Although counties are used like you described for reporting purposes (except for Louisiana which has parishes instead of counties).
in the german federal election you have 2 votes, one for the local candidate and one for the party. the candidate with most votes (simple majority) will go to the parliament. so the local district matters.
I do know that there are two votes. But in the last election reform the direct vote has drastically lost importance. It is no longer guaranteed that every person who won the direct vote will go to parliament. The distribution of seats will only be decided by the party votes. The only exception remains that parties with three direct candidate wins will be able to go to parliament without winning at least five percent of the party votes.
I don’t know if that is completely true but I think in countries without the first pass the post system this is not even a problem. For example in Germany every voter has one vote and they are all added together in the end. The districts are only for managing the vote counting but have almost no influence on the end result.
Yeah, Germany has a sort of mix of single transferrable vote and proportional representation. I’m jealous!
Gerrymandering isn’t a thing with presidential elections. The districts are used for congressional elections where there are multiple representatives per state.
Oh, I actually didn’t know that. Does it not work for presidential elections?
Nope, presidential elections use the total for the whole state and electoral college fuckery. Although counties are used like you described for reporting purposes (except for Louisiana which has parishes instead of counties).
in the german federal election you have 2 votes, one for the local candidate and one for the party. the candidate with most votes (simple majority) will go to the parliament. so the local district matters.
I do know that there are two votes. But in the last election reform the direct vote has drastically lost importance. It is no longer guaranteed that every person who won the direct vote will go to parliament. The distribution of seats will only be decided by the party votes. The only exception remains that parties with three direct candidate wins will be able to go to parliament without winning at least five percent of the party votes.