Record of Dutch general election July 2010

• What is the difference between preferential voting in Australia and proportional representation in the Netherlands? Many Australians have great difficulty distinguishing between the two systems. That is partly because in the Australian Senate, which IS elected on the basis of proportional representation (Hare-Clarke system), the option under the line is a preferential system. However, most countries using proportional representation actually use the Open Party List System. This means that a voter, with one vote only can choose for any of the parties offering themselves, usually several, with just one vote which can also indicate which particular candidate on that party's list is preferred.  Now as to the difference between preferential voting in a LOWER HOUSE SEAT in Australia and the system in the Netherlands is that only one candidate can be elected in a single-member district and in 95 plus % of all cases that will be a candidate of a major party, whether or not that preferential vote in optional. In proportional representation you vote in MULTI-MEMBER ELECTORATES and candidates are elected on the basis of a quota which essentially means the number of votes in that multi-member electorate divided by the number of seats. This is what creates real diversity not the ILLUSION OF  DIVERSITY as in Australia and believed to be democracy!. It is not democracy. What we have here is a two party tyranny. Proportional representation, in a nutshell, means that parties will get seats in proportion of the percentage votes cast for them. FAIR? Absolutely! And a great attraction for voters who are now turning away from voting in droves!!  An unfair system we have now but the major parties basically refuse to reform the current system because they are the principal beneficiaries of it. 

Seats in:  Lower House, Senate and E.U.   LH  S  E

Freedom and Democracy (VVD, Rutte)       31,14, 3
Labour Party (PvdA, Cohen)          30,14, 3
Party for Freedom (PVV, Wilders)       24,  0, 5
Christian Democrats (CDA, Verhagen)       21,21, 5
Socialist Party (SP, Roemer)           15,11, 2
Democrats 66 (D66, Pechtold)          10,  2, 3
Green Left (GL, Sap)              10,  4, 3
Christian Union (CU, Rouvoet)    5, 4, 1
Reformed Political Party (SGP,VanderStaay)   2, 1, 1
Party for Animals   (PvdD, Thieme)                2, 1, 0
Indep.  Senate Fraction  (OSF, ten Hoeven)   0, 1, 0

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