UK Politics: Which Electoral System is Best?

[@edwardcampbell1867]

Hi Alan, I’ve just started studying A level politics, all your videos are so so helpful, thankyou! :)

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Happy to help!

[@white84815]

thanks a lot! really simple and helpful video for a night-before essay, got a lot of vital key points here big thumbs up

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Glad it helped!

[@frugi9071]

Revising for my AS Level Politics exam thank you these videos they're so helpful :)

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Happy to help!

[@abitaylor7346]

This video was unbelievably helpful, thankyou!!

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maxr5648]

Love these videos you are an absolute legend !

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Thank you!

[@TheAuldBob]

Whatever voting system is used first past the post is the absolute worst for it results in the form of dictatorship currently in evidence here in the United Kingdom where The London Westminster Establishment does as it likes and totally ignores the devolved administrations. It does, though have the advantage that it will ultimately end the United Kingdom with Scotland deciding the bipartite Treaty of union, allegedly a union of equally sovereign kingdoms, to end the treaty. This may even be preceded by the reunification of the politically partitioned country of Ireland.

[@jamesd6059]

Could you explain how the 5% threshold for London Assembly elections works to avoid extremist parties getting representation? Thank you!

[@FinnSadlerGaming]

often, extremist parties (such as the BNP exemplified in the video) will only receive a very small amount of the vote share, it's unlikely they will gain over 5% of the vote, so having a threshold of 5% would likely prevent any of them from gaining power. at least that's how i understand it

[@jamesd6059]

@@FinnSadlerGaming perfect thank you!

[@CordobaGeneral1234]

quick question, what voting sytem is used to elect members of the house of commons?

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

First Past the Post

[@CordobaGeneral1234]

@@AlanHistoryNerd what about the alternative vote (AV) ans the single transferrrable vote (STV)

[@jasmeharsirna7009]

STV is used in Northern Ireland and AV was proposed in 2011 but rejected, however it is still used in Australia.

[@kashyhussain8212]

Can I ask a question?

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

Certainly

[@alicejones1228]

@@AlanHistoryNerd what is the difference between electoral parties and parliamentary parties

[@hk-nm8ox]

What about party list and alternative votes? I’m really confused on these two

[@AlanHistoryNerd]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5ykXoObnK2robM try this video hopefully it will help

[@hk-nm8ox]

@@AlanHistoryNerd ty

[@kanyewilliams9390]

The goat

[@SkashTheKitsune]

wow, talk about a mess in politics, at least in Australia we basically have the same system with each election whether it's council, state, federal, etc the only thing that's first to the post is whether or not we want to still be affiliated with the queen for some reason even though we have been "granted" our independence from the UK back in 1901... and 1986... yes we had a loophole where the UK could molest our political system