Which is the Best Possible ELECTORAL METHOD to Elect Parliament in Pakistan ?

[prop558]

OPTION 1 - CURRENT SYSTEM :

Currently we are habving FPTP System (First Past the Post). Means Whoever wins the most number of votes, wins the Constituency... Doesn't matter if the WINNER gets 30% votes and his "divided opponents" gets 70% because the opponents were divided...


OPTION 2 - PROPORTIONATE REPRESENTATION SYSTEM :

Means if a Party wins 40% popular votes, the party gets 40% allocated. MNAs will be automatically elected as per the Priority List which each Party submits to the ECP before Elections.. Exactly the way WOMEN MNAs are automatically gets elected from each Province as per the given Priority List of Party.


OPTION 3 - TWO ROUND SYSTEM / MAJORITY VOTE :

In this system, Candidate has to obtain at least 50% of the votes from whatever constituency he / she is contesting. In case of all candidates (in the respective constituency) fails to obtain 50% Votes, then 2nd round will be held among the TOP 2 candidates.... Having 2nd Round, might increase the overall cost of Elections..

 

[prop558]

First-past-the-post voting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ssan]

I think it should be proportionate representation with some reasonably high threshold to qualify for parliament like in Turkey.

 

[PakAlp]

I think it should be the same. Let people make their minds up on MNAs. The way people are, that's how they are to be ruled. The PM should be directly elected, the CMs should be abolished and governors should be direct elected for each province, then mayors directly elected. Governors should be independent and be part of PM team. MNAs should only make laws. Funds should be given to Governors and local governments (mayors)

 

[Flash_Ninja]

Pakistani democracy is not mature enough to handle new systems. It needs to work on the existing one and make it foolproof.

A new system like proportional representation will still have the same fundemental issues i.e. voter intimidation, ballot stuffing, voting restrictions, media blackouts etc.

 

[Rank]

Pakistan and Pakistanis first should come out from this bradari-shit

 

[Falconless]

Preferential voting would be worth considering

 

[SQ8]

Too late to talk about using AI leadership from top to bottom? People maintain the AI but at the end AI represents a constituent area and based on population and area proportion gets priorities not too different to how threads get run in a RISC architecture…

Anyway, I like the preferential voting system

 

[prop558]

Pakistan and Pakistanis first should come out from this bradari-shit

That's where Proportionate System will work ..... I mean If a party gets 40% votes in the Province.... That party will automatically get 40% seats of that Province in the National Assembly as well as in the Provincial Assembly.....

That's how feudalism / baradri system can be contained because there will NO CONSTITUENCY POLITICS of Elect-ables / Local Feudal Lords / Waderas... Chaudhries ..Maliks ..Seths.. etc etc

 

[prop558]

2018 - ELECTION RESULTS OF SINDH :

PARTY​

VOTES in %​

SEATS WON​

SEATS with Vote %​

PPP​	44.96%​	100​	75.53 means 76​
GDA​	17.26%​	14​	28.99 means 30​
PTI​	16.9%​	30​	28.39 means 29​
MQM​	9.03%​	20​	15.17 means 16​
MMA​	7.13%​	1​	11.97 means 12​
TLP​	4.83%​	3​	2.87 means 03​
IND / Others​	1.19%​	None​	1.19 means 02 ​

TOTAL​

100%​

168​

By having 2018 Elections as an Example, This table clearly showing that Had there been a Proportionate Voting System in Pakistan (like many other countries) PPP would have 75 seats in Sindh Assembly, instead of 100... PTI would have more seats in Punjab than PML-N .... etc etc