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Philly Dem would engineer GOP off city council
From Philadelphia comes more news that proportional representation (and its cousins) isn’t just for progressives and minor parties.
While a coalition of the Cincinnati NAACP and local Republicans backs that city’s return to PR-STV, a Philly Democrat wants to boot the only two Republicans from city council by eliminating two at-large seats elected under limited voting.
Of 17 council seats, 10 are elected in single-member districts. Limited voting (here, two-vote MNTV) helps prevent Democratic electoral majorities from sweeping the remaining seven at-large seats.
The Democratic member’s apparent plan is to reduce district magnitude in the non-majoritarian tier, making it more difficult for the city’s few Republicans to win representation.
Posts district magnitude, electoral engineering, electoral systems, limited voting, mntv, Philadelphia2 responses to to “Philly Dem would engineer GOP off city council”
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Bancki September 8th, 2008 at 07:06
Philadelphia Home Rule Charter
ยง 2-101. The Election of Councilmen.
…Each elector shall have the right to vote for one district councilman and for *five* councilmen-at-large. To this end not more than five candidates for councilmen-at-large shall be nominated pursuant to law by any party or other political body… -
5-vote MNTV in a 7-member tier. Thank you; I wrote from faulty memory.
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