Comment on Attacks on Australia’s preferential voting system are ludicrous. We can be proud of it | Kevin Bonham

<- View Parent
Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

As you already know in FPTP the votes would be split, so with the centrist and the right-wing splitting the vote

Ah, but it was never that. The party I’m calling centrist is viewed as centre-left here by the media and general public. With our IRV, this bears out with approximately 80% of the preferences of centrist voters going to the left-wing party; the same ratio as votes from the left-wing party that go to the centrist party. (Why about 20% of left-wing voters prefer the right-wing over the centre I will never understand.) Greens and Labor split each other’s votes, not Labor and LNP.

source
Sort:hotnewtop